Comments on: Leave Me Out of It: When to Use the Second Person http://kidlit.com/2009/07/20/leave-me-out-of-it-when-to-use-the-second-person/ A place for people who love, read and write children's literature. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:49:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Lisa Gibson http://kidlit.com/2009/07/20/leave-me-out-of-it-when-to-use-the-second-person/comment-page-1/#comment-3518 Lisa Gibson Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:17:57 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=520#comment-3518 Great post! I loved your response to the query question. I laughed out loud, thinking 'that sounds like something I would say'. Great points on the use of 2nd person. Great post! I loved your response to the query question. I laughed out loud, thinking ‘that sounds like something I would say’. Great points on the use of 2nd person.

]]> By: Sumner Wilson http://kidlit.com/2009/07/20/leave-me-out-of-it-when-to-use-the-second-person/comment-page-1/#comment-3500 Sumner Wilson Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:03:11 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=520#comment-3500 Thanks for explaining this. Would you give an example of a book using 2nd person, please ma'am? Thanks, Sumner Wilson Thanks for explaining this. Would you give an example of a book using 2nd person, please ma’am?

Thanks,
Sumner Wilson

]]> By: Kidlit.com · Overthinking the Query http://kidlit.com/2009/07/20/leave-me-out-of-it-when-to-use-the-second-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1345 Kidlit.com · Overthinking the Query Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:42:18 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=520#comment-1345 [...] asked a question on my post about the second person and rhetorical questions in queries a few days ago, and I wanted to do a quick post in response: Do you think that *any* question [...] [...] asked a question on my post about the second person and rhetorical questions in queries a few days ago, and I wanted to do a quick post in response: Do you think that *any* question [...]

]]> By: Mary http://kidlit.com/2009/07/20/leave-me-out-of-it-when-to-use-the-second-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1312 Mary Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:38:36 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=520#comment-1312 Shannon -- I'll do a quick answer to this in a post tomorrow. Shannon — I’ll do a quick answer to this in a post tomorrow.

]]> By: Shannon http://kidlit.com/2009/07/20/leave-me-out-of-it-when-to-use-the-second-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1302 Shannon Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:07:13 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=520#comment-1302 Do you think that *any* question addressed to the reader of a query letter is irritating? Is it automatically "rhetorical" if you're not actually there to give the author your feedback? I never thought that it might be a turn-off; I thought it was "marketing". My goodness, this query business is intimidating. Do you think that *any* question addressed to the reader of a query letter is irritating? Is it automatically “rhetorical” if you’re not actually there to give the author your feedback? I never thought that it might be a turn-off; I thought it was “marketing”. My goodness, this query business is intimidating.

]]> By: Mary http://kidlit.com/2009/07/20/leave-me-out-of-it-when-to-use-the-second-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1017 Mary Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:40:55 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=520#comment-1017 Susan -- You laugh NOW, but imagine having to clean that basement! :) Thanks for stopping by the blog. Susan — You laugh NOW, but imagine having to clean that basement! :) Thanks for stopping by the blog.

]]> By: Susan James http://kidlit.com/2009/07/20/leave-me-out-of-it-when-to-use-the-second-person/comment-page-1/#comment-1016 Susan James Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:22:33 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=520#comment-1016 LOL! Mess my pants and hide in the basement. LOL! Mess my pants and hide in the basement.

]]> By: Kidlit.com · Dear Queriers, Part 2 http://kidlit.com/2009/07/20/leave-me-out-of-it-when-to-use-the-second-person/comment-page-1/#comment-928 Kidlit.com · Dear Queriers, Part 2 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:45:31 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=520#comment-928 [...] is a <sarcasm>fun</sarcasm> new spin on my absolute pet peeve: the rhetorical question query. And the use of second person in general, when it’s not earned or warranted. I don’t [...] [...] is a <sarcasm>fun</sarcasm> new spin on my absolute pet peeve: the rhetorical question query. And the use of second person in general, when it’s not earned or warranted. I don’t [...]

]]> By: Debbie Duncan http://kidlit.com/2009/07/20/leave-me-out-of-it-when-to-use-the-second-person/comment-page-1/#comment-635 Debbie Duncan Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:40:00 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=520#comment-635 If a writer cannot write in the second person as brilliantly as Rebecca Stead does in WHEN YOU REACH ME (second person in the title, even!), my advice is: don't. I think that's what you said too. Thanks for the post, Mary. Catching up a bit.... If a writer cannot write in the second person as brilliantly as Rebecca Stead does in WHEN YOU REACH ME (second person in the title, even!), my advice is: don’t. I think that’s what you said too.

Thanks for the post, Mary. Catching up a bit….

]]> By: Shaun Hutchinson http://kidlit.com/2009/07/20/leave-me-out-of-it-when-to-use-the-second-person/comment-page-1/#comment-622 Shaun Hutchinson Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:12:33 +0000 http://kidlit.com/?p=520#comment-622 Great post. And I totally do this. I noticed it a lot more when I changed The Deathday Letter from past to present tense. I found that occasionally breaking the fourth wall made it feel like my narrator was confiding in the reader. That it made them feel like he was telling the story directly to them. Whether my editor agrees is yet to be seen :) I agree though, this 4th wall breaking can be way overused. Great post. And I totally do this. I noticed it a lot more when I changed The Deathday Letter from past to present tense. I found that occasionally breaking the fourth wall made it feel like my narrator was confiding in the reader. That it made them feel like he was telling the story directly to them. Whether my editor agrees is yet to be seen :) I agree though, this 4th wall breaking can be way overused.

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