What's all this, now?

[rose_griffes]

I have this idea for a fanfic about an OFC (strike one) and I'm thinking about writing it in second person (strike two). Oh, I almost forgot: it's hugely depressing, too, with implied character deaths (strike three).

Feel free to tell me why this is crazy. Or link me to some good examples of second-person in fanfic.

Comments

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Hee! I like it already. I love OFCs. Do it! Hmm, second-person, huh? I'll see if I can find some.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Here are a couple. Hope they help. Second-person is hard, good luck!

BSG
Follow the Leader

Joan of Arcadia
Benediction

Of course there is one I stumbled across this weekend, but can't remember the name. I'll add it if I find it again!

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'd never read that Tom Zarek fic. Excellent! (And obviously I'd never read the JoA fic either, heh.) THANKS!

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Hope we see the results! (I had more stories but they were porn. Which is interesting in the second person. ;-))

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Hope we see the results!

It's eating my brain and I'm in idea-love and I want to spend all my time working on it... but I have work that keeps getting in the way! Ack!

Heh. It's a good thing I like my own ideas. I'll just call this 'the three-strike fic' for now.

Sometimes it still catches you by surprise--a flash of giddiness that you're working next to Samuel T. Anders. All of them, really--Sue-Shaun, Barolay, Hillard... names you used to hear on the wireless. You think for a moment how you'll tell your friends about this, then you remember. You and your friends are never going to watch vids of the C-Buc games together or argue about stats or whether or not Anders had a girlfriend and which of you he'd like better. It was stupid, really.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like this! It reminds me of the Common People challenge which was before my time on LJ. I can't really get into those fics for some reason. But a lot of them had unnamed OCs perfect for the second-person. (Unnamed on the show because they don't really exist. :-))

But I like this woman and how she talks to herself. She reminds me of someone . . . ;-) And now after your last fic, I'm worried about her. I hope she's not on Caprica!

Is there more? The e-mail is always open!

[http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/]

Ooh, I love second-person, though it's definitely a challenge and isn't generally popular. While I hate linking to my own fic, I can't even remember seeing any other ones in this fandom. So, here's one I wrote a couple of years ago: "Felt Like Flying"

Good luck with your story!

[rose-griffes.livejournal.com]

Yay, thanks! I thought I remembered seeing one by you before--I probably read it before I got my own LJ almost two years ago. It's still wonderful, by the way.

As for trying second person, I like the different feel it gives to the (very few) fics that are written that way. And yes, it's been challenging so far. Also, work keeps getting in the way of writing. *g*