What do people feel about writing in 1st perspective? As far as I know nearly everyone here write their posts in 3rd person, but I would love to see a roleplay where everything is done in 1st perspective; that way describing what a person is thinking and any emotions involved can be described in a more natural way.
I don't see it as a permanent thing, as 3rd person is probably better suited for most rps (especially ones which include heavy action), but it would interesting imo.
this i think is actually very interesting. in English books, are italics really used to indicate thought, like gimmepie mentioned? it seems strange to me, but it could be because i have just been exposed to the exact same books and way of writing that MorallyIncorrect has. i do remember reading English novels before and being surprised at some ways of formatting certain things, but sadly right now it's been too long for me to remember what exactly was so different ( ´ ▽ ` )ゞ
I used to write in first person a lot
but then I realized that I preferred third person, haha
I also used to bold dialogue and even color it, and put thoughts in italics and whatnot. I don't really do any of those things anymore as my writing has shifted more towards how one would write a novel, at least in format.
as far as the thoughts in italics in novels thing goes . . . I don't recall seeing that. I only read English novels, soooo yeah. Books in first person obviously have no need for that, and a lot of times a writer will have it go
words words words, character thought.
but it's possible that some novels have done it, and perhaps I've even seen it done but have forgotten. that's quite likely, actually. quite likely . . . darn my memory.
one thing I noticed when I read a British novel, Faeries Wars, was that the author placed dialogue between apostrophes rather than quotation marks.
'So it was like this'
instead of
"Being like this"