[AlexisStreetFighter]

Hey forum. So my boyfriend and I are attempting to write up accounts of all my strip club fights to post here for everyone to read. However we are having a little disagreement over whether the stories should be written from a first person perspective (I, me, my) or a third person perspective (Alexis, she, her). We can't decide which style is better for catfight stories, so we wanted to ask the forum directly so we can write them in the way the most people would enjoy them best.

So, with that in mind, do you prefer catfight stories to be written in the 1st person or in the 3rd person?

[catfightlover40]

Hello Alexis and her bf,

I've been writing for more than 2 decades now, and when faced with a question like yours, I like to go around what it entails. Many stories I've written for myself and never kept were first person, dynamic fight description with such a bare bone narrative like an adult video store's repairmen comes over porn.

If it's something I write for others or I just want to entertain others, the stories are usually longer, but there's of course a cheat code you can use, namely you can form your fights into a series where your character needs to be established only once. You don't need to listen to me, but if I write it, I'd spend the introduction first on how your fights are unavoidable, either because of your hot temperament, low tolerance to alcohol, or nurture among brothers/slash sisterhood where you became the alpha. If the latter is the case, they definitely should be always first person since a queen be would never tolerate being narrated in 3rd unless she's the queen of Sheba and the royal scribes are expendable.

The next is the scenery. My cheat would be to establish the place you frequent the most (if there's one or the most well-known) and compare other places to it thereby shortening further introductions. How you would describe opponents, for me again depends on why you fight. It would surprise me if you would write you got really drunk but 2 pages later you can perfectly recall the kanji for friendship on her arm. The more believably antagonistic you are the less you wish to go into detail on them or compare it to yourself how much better you are.

In conclusion if these stories talk to you deeply, it should be first person, but suppose there'd be a fight where you got drunk and couldn't recall all detail, narration could switch to your boyfriend explaining it to you in the third person. These are my two cents.

[Super Deadly Ham Attack]

I can see the appeal of both styles, but I personally prefer first-person. For me the advantage that third person has is the omnipotent narrator who can share any information you wish - the narrator always knows what's happening with both fighters, whereas in first person you only know what's going on with yourself, and you can only put down your impressions of what your opponent is thinking or going through. With that being said, I find it far easier to identify with a character in first person, which is one of the most important parts of a story for me. Maybe try third person to get your feet wet and then switch to first, or try first and switch to third if you don't like the style?

[Michael James]

Alexis and her boyfriend,

Well, I'm not the best writer by any means, but I understand your dilemma. I actually just had that concern with my last story I posted.    I have written a first person story, and it was interesting... Here's my take on it.   Do what you're comfortable with.  If YOU are writing the story and telling it from your perspective (or want to) then by all means, do a first person account of it.  In fact, I've seen many times where a writer would do a 3rd person account of it, and then state, "From <<insert name here>>'s perspective" and then retell the same short story in first person. 

What could be fun is YOU (I'm guess in Alexis) write a story from your point of view (1st person) and then have your boyfriend write it from his perspective (3rd  person) and see how you feel about it.    I'm sure it'll be good either way!

I look forward to reading them when you post them!

[AlexisStreetFighter]

Thanks for all the replies so far everyone. We are taking all opinions into consideration. We're definitely keen to get a bunch more opinions before we settle on what style we will go for

[Interested fightfan]

3rd Person (Alexis, she, her)

[Rivals Rapture]

In comic book roleplay and with most of my fetish stories, I write in the third person. It is easier, I believe, to tell a tale about things happening to multiple characters and in the world outside the perception of the main character in the third person. Keep in mind though, that if you are writing a lot of stories, you'll want to try both (though in different stories). It gives you a different tone to play with and gives your readers something new to expect from you.

That being said, in sexual roleplays (cybers), the first person is just better.

It is just so much easier to write about joy and fear, pleasure and pain when you are able to describe it as if you are feeling it -- enduring it.

In the third person, descriptions lack intimacy and emotion and become more recitations of fact, rather than blissful narrations of sensuality or torturous descriptions of violence done and agony felt.

[catfightlover40]

In comic book roleplay and with most of my fetish stories, I write in the third person. It is easier, I believe, to tell a tale about things happening to multiple characters and in the world outside the perception of the main character in the third person. Keep in mind though, that if you are writing a lot of stories, you'll want to try both (though in different stories). It gives you a different tone to play with and gives your readers something new to expect from you.

That being said, in sexual roleplays (cybers), the first person is just better.

It is just so much easier to write about joy and fear, pleasure and pain when you are able to describe it as if you are feeling it -- enduring it.

In the third person, descriptions lack intimacy and emotion and become more recitations of fact, rather than blissful narrations of sensuality or torturous descriptions of violence done and agony felt.

I slightly disagree. While it would make a lot of sense to choose pre-Abrahamic gods as templates for a 3rd person omniscient narrator, like say, the narrator is like Hera who's actually invested in having the main character killed or maimed, I usually go for the "g*d is everywhere" notion and the narrator being so omniscient and also the creator (which is to mean the narrator is a Stephen King-ish author voice) they're more than capable, and thoroughly invested to follow every action, describe emotions. Recital happens when the author's narrator is noninterventional, and in my opinion that depends on if you're the type of person who grabs popcorn to watch the fireworks or if you want to be part of it.