second person Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/second-person/ Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:27:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Second Person: Why I Used You In My Novel https://booksbywomen.org/second-person-why-i-used-you-in-my-novel/ https://booksbywomen.org/second-person-why-i-used-you-in-my-novel/#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:27:46 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15823 Second person address, “I-to-you,” is a fascinating and effective literary device, the most intimate point-of-view there is, but writers avoid it like a death knell. Most editors reject it. Not only that, it isn’t easy to pull off, especially in novel length stories. So why use it? Why have the narrator tell her story to […]

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