And you get a big ole thanks for expanding my vocabulary with with "close 3rd person.) :)
usually its only purpose is so that the author can blather on for paragraphs about the scenery or the drapes, which bores me to hell to begin with; description of the surroundings is not for me
I agree. With some exceptions, I don't come to fanfic for description. I have to read enough Dickens in real life without getting it in fandom. LOL I generally prefer fic that concentrates on dialogue and action rather than setting.
The books themselves were written in first person
That makes sense to me. If the source material is already in first person, I don't think I would be alienated by fanfic in first person. It wouldn't be so much the ficcer's "I" as the canonical "I."
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usually its only purpose is so that the author can blather on for paragraphs about the scenery or the drapes, which bores me to hell to begin with; description of the surroundings is not for me
I agree. With some exceptions, I don't come to fanfic for description. I have to read enough Dickens in real life without getting it in fandom. LOL I generally prefer fic that concentrates on dialogue and action rather than setting.
The books themselves were written in first person
That makes sense to me. If the source material is already in first person, I don't think I would be alienated by fanfic in first person. It wouldn't be so much the ficcer's "I" as the canonical "I."