Comments on: Second Person: Why I Used You In My Novel https://booksbywomen.org/second-person-why-i-used-you-in-my-novel/ Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:02:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Top Picks Thursday! For Readers and Writers 06-30-2016 | The Author Chronicles https://booksbywomen.org/second-person-why-i-used-you-in-my-novel/#comment-47732 Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:02:08 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15823#comment-47732 […] Rob Bignell explains why your story isn’t its plot or structure, Linda K. Sienkiewski explores the use of second person narration in her story, Darcy Pattison gives us 23 ways to defeat the sagging middle, and Ruth Harris shows how to fix […]

]]> By: Linda https://booksbywomen.org/second-person-why-i-used-you-in-my-novel/#comment-47719 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 15:37:16 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15823#comment-47719 In reply to Lynette Benton.

You’re welcome! I’ll have to look that book up. I learned the most from studying “Bright Lights, Big City” by Jay McInerney, where the self splits and talks to the self in denial, and Marilynne Robinson’s “Giliad,” , where the father talks to the son (actually, the book is a letter to the son, but it reads like conversation). I think you’d like my book, too! 😉
Linda

]]> By: Lynette Benton https://booksbywomen.org/second-person-why-i-used-you-in-my-novel/#comment-47718 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 13:17:02 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15823#comment-47718 What an insightful post! I always related deeply to 2nd person narratives, but couldn’t articulate why. I recently bought “An Anthology of Essays Devoted to the Second Person” for myself and to use with my creative writing students.

Thanks, Linda!

]]> By: Second Person: Why I Used You In My Novel | WordHarbour https://booksbywomen.org/second-person-why-i-used-you-in-my-novel/#comment-47717 Sun, 26 Jun 2016 11:43:21 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15823#comment-47717 […] Linda K. Sienkiewicz Second person address, “I-to-you,” is a fascinating and effective literary device, the most […]

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