Second Person Perspectives - Why They're Hard to Write
Aaaaah, Second Person Perspective. Perhaps the greatest trial in any writer's life; a perspective that flips everything you ever learned and loved about writing on its head. It seems easy, oh, it does.
But it's anything but.
First, a little bit of explanation. Second Person perspective is, best put, the reader is the character. Whoever is reading the narrative is stepping into the narrative's world; they are your main character. A puppet, just as any other character would be - in a sense - in that you determine - again, in a sense - where the reader goes. What they do, when they do it.
But, this is also Second Person's biggest problem. No matter how many times you try, you just can't get other people to want to be told what they're doing! As …
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