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NOTE: IF YOU HAVE PTSD, YOU WOULD PERHAPS NOT WANT TO BE READING THE STORY I AM ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT.
I've got an old short story called "Extreme" that I published on Storysite as an excercise in a creative writing class. I wanted it to leave the reader feeling breathless and emotional. It is about the most extreme combat that anyone could come up with; a really, really despirate situation that repeats every day until the poor soldier is either killed or is pulled from duty.
I wrote it in third person, and always felt as if it read as an action report, not a story. So, in thinking about the problem, I thought I might re-do it and publish it here but in first person to see if it would feel more intense.
It is a one off, not likely to be continued. What do you think about my idea or should I just leave it moldering away in the archives?
Much peace
Gwendolyn
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It's your work, Gwen
If you'd like to play with it a bit and repost it, I say go for it. *smiles* See how it feels moving forward with the rewrite. If you like where it's going, share. If you don't, then don't. Either way, you know we all love you, no matter what. *hugs*
Randa
First, Second, Third person, that is the question!
Why not post the original and the newer version when completed?
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
I think you're on the right
I think you're on the right track. Writing in the first person is probably the best way to convey that sense of intensity and desperation to the reader.
Best of luck with the rewrite.
- vessica b