General Recommendation Thread #10

Well, the previous one is on page 21, so I figured it was high time someone started a new thread. No recs at this time.

Put in a link to the old thread

The Flaw in the Plan by PK9

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6499081/1/The_Flaw_in_the_Plan

Before the berries, the rule change, even Rue's flowers, he did something that no one had ever imagined in 73 years of Hunger Games, and so became a contender, until Katniss Everdeen ruined everything. The untold story of Landmine Boy from District 3.
Hunger Games - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 15 - Words: 63,155 - Reviews: 103 - Updated: 11-4-11 - Published: 11-23-10 - Other tributes & Beetee - Complete

This is about the tribute from District 3 you reactivated the landmines and used them to guard the Career Tributes supplies. He was an unsung hero who defied the capitol and inspired his district to fight for its freedom.

Continued from the previous thread:

It's called "follow the conversation linking back to a discussion of how awesome Strike Witches Quest is." Not rocket science.

Technically it's Strike Witches mixed with War of the Worlds.

What's the issue?

Isn't second person the standard format for Quest Threads?

Set during the 1940s of an ATL of our Earth. WW2 happened on schedule only to get thrown off course when the Martians attacked round 1943. At least before the beginning of the build up of forces for Operation Overlord.

Second Person is NOT the term you're looking for.

First Person or Third Person however IS.

First Person is the Point of View as seen from a single main character. Third Person is the "Omniscient Narrator", and is the most commonly used and recommended writing style.

Second Person is the point of view from "The other side". If you're writing about the Allies in World War II, stories or snapshots from the POV of the Axis would be the second person narrative.

Quests, much like the classic choose-your-own-adventure stories that preceded them, are commonly written in second person. Aranfan had it right.

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Not really.

First Person Narration:
"I went down to the store and bought a soda."
Second Person Narration:
"You went down to the store and bought a soda."
Third Person Narration:
"She went down to the store and bought a soda."

That's all there is to it. Well, second person is almost always told in present tense, rather than the past tense, but that's another issue. As is omniscient narrators vs. limited narrators.

Yeah, I've never heard Robo's take before.

Something similiar I've heard before but more in terms of research articles and such

You're confusing primary, secondary, and third person sources with declension.

First Person is "I" and "We"
Second is "You" and "You All"
Third is "He, She, or It" and "They".

Third Person can be either omniscient or limited. Basically everything Robo said is wrong.

You may be right, but this sort of wording is the easiest means by which to make a post of "You're mistaken and here is why" into what can all too easily be viewed as a personal attack, which usually results in flamewars and whatnot. Kindly knock that sort of shit off.

Anyways, Do The Right Thing updated a while ago. [spoiler]A lack of pants, a beer-spider, and a gift wrapped surprise![/spoiler]:drevil:

Oracle - Naruto. 28k words. Complete. Standalone.

Neji goes blind after being ambushed by Cloud ninjas and, as a result, is expected to die following the traditions of the Hyuuga, after a month of grace that he is granted only because of Hinata's meddling. Neji decides to use his last days to come to terms with himself and to help change his big, screwed up family.

Opinion: Writing is good, perhaps a bit in the plain side (which suits my tastes), and manages to successfully convey a lot of emotion without falling into angstfest territory.
Characterization is, in my opinion, good and self-consistent for Neji and what little we glimpse of other characters. The story's main fault, in as much as there is one to find, is that parts of the world-building used are fanon cliches (or, at least, have become fanon cliches at this point), but in the whole I find that pretty minor.
Not an epic and while much (not all of it good) has been written about the tragic elements of the Narutoverse, this is one of the better fics that explores this stuff I've read in a couple of years. 8/10.

I'm not fond of second person.

Still, i gave it a read and nearly bust my gut laughing so it's not a bad tale all told.

Fair warning, keep food and drink away from your person while reading Strike Witches Quest.


For personal safety.

Not all 3rd person narratives are omniscient. It can be limited as well.

The most commonly recommended writing point of view in creative writing is the 1st person narrative.

And second-person narrative is a narrative that uses second-person personal pronouns, such as "you", to refer to the protagonist. A great example of this is Italo Calvino's seminal work, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller.

That would be a matter of opinion.

I, for example, prefer 3rd person to 1st person narrative.

I strongly prefer 3rd person, but 1st can be tolerable if the POV is never switched to another character.

Is there a specific name/sub-genre/trope to the blatant use of too many 'I's in first person narrative?

Such as:

'My name Antonio Jiménez and I am a super soldier in the Galaxtron Empire in the year 3XXX. I am a specialist, 3rd class. I have been given an assignment that I deem too low for my rank. I think too low. I have been attached to some officer's cabinet somewhere in the eastern far rim. I think it's another effort upon my family's rivals to thin our ranks. I should-'

"Antonio! Shut. The. Hell. Up!", one marine yells. "We can literally hear you think, stop being such an ass!", another joins. More and more words, shouts, and scoff remarks ensemble in the small cafeteria.

Most people who are still just beginning to write creatively are highly encouraged to start writing in the 1st person narrative. It's the most commonly recommended narrative not because it's what's best stylistically, but rather, because it's normally the easiest narrative format to fully formulate.


Personally, i don't have any biases towards the narrative point of view as a reader. If it's done well, anything can be great. It's all a matter of execution.

Bad writing? lol

Using "I" a lot is difficult to avoid when first-person narrators are talking about themselves. It can be reduced somewhat through careful sentence structuring, but when you need to use an "I" there aren't really any alternatives. The thing I find most jarring in your sample isn't the abundance of "I", but the fact that it's at the beginning of like 5 sentences in a row.

Yeah, so long as the "I"s aren't in the same place, relatively, then your mind usually won't pick up on it.

I feel your pain, man. So much stuff to watch/read/etc and not enough time to do it in.