In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.
I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.
I feel that form determines how readers read a book and how they judge it.
When you write fiction, you have an ideal reader in your mind who's sort of you but smarter.
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
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