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First, Second, Third person, that is the question!

Submitted by Gwen Brown on Thu, 2011/09/29 - 4:05pm

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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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