Susan Savage Lee

@MidnightRose838 It just feels like a cool challenge

@SusanSavageLee1 I love playing with 2nd person, but so far I've only done a poetry short story, inspired by a dream, & a few other poems. I've wanted to write a story in 2nd person for a while.

What’s a story you would love to write, but haven’t figured out yet? I so want to write a second-person story and, while I have a rough idea for one, I can’t seem to sort out some issues in it #writingq #WritingCommunity

@BWoostersauce That sounds really cool!

@SusanSavageLee1 Historical fiction. My current idea is an English officer who has to mop up after Waterloo stumbles across a cache of gold and silver. He gives the silver to his men, then smuggles gold to England in a disgusting way. Gets caught. Goes on trial. What’s the verdict? I’m 10k words.

@Robinov14 I will! Thanks!

@SusanSavageLee1 Before you write it, read Italo Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.” I had the same notion, but changed my mind after reading his. 😀

@rublied I hope you write after you finish your current one

@SusanSavageLee1 I've had an idea for a supernatural horror book about 2 boys for a few months now but I still couldn't get myself to write it yet, as I am still too new of writer and not done with my first/current sci-fi book.

@CRAIGLCrawford A screenplay would be fun

@SusanSavageLee1 Yeah, 2nd person POV is a tough one. Have never done it. I keep wanting to write a horror screenplay. Got the base story, just haven't embraced it yet...

@WrldBrkrNovels Love it!

@SusanSavageLee1 I have a story following a man that's given eternal life in a universe that resets every quintillion years, repeating over and over with the man as the only X factor to make any changes from one cycle to the next. I'm struggling to figure out if it'll be episodic or continuous.

@fishclamor I will!

@SusanSavageLee1 most of them i think. especially the one i started in 2016 called retrograde about a ill-fated love affair that had nothing to do with fate but i had a good game going--oh susan! thank you! that's the problem i see it now! thank you! you, write that 2nd person susan. just talk

@GioPetersAuthor I hope you figure it out

@SusanSavageLee1 I'm currently trying to figure out a WIP I shelved 5 years ago. It won't let me go!

@VilliAsgeirsson I’m going to check it out

@SusanSavageLee1 I did an experiment with writing in second-person. A short story. It’s very quiet, and kind of asked for this. kobo.com/en/ebook/moss-…

@Unknown360807 I totally get that. I’ve wanted to create a literary theory about how time is depicted in certain stories and how that creates a specific effect

@SusanSavageLee1 I’d really love to write a story about time ⏳. It fascinates me—how you can structure it in different ways, explore multiple possibilities, and even show the same character existing in different timelines ✍️✨

@laurelworlds That would be cool. I think you’ve mentioned your birds before. I love birds

@SusanSavageLee1 i would love to write some fully illustrated children's books about my late cockatiel Mithril. Money and technical side of illustrated books are my barriers. A proper artist needs to be paid.

@author_jm That makes me sad. Don’t we want originality?

@SusanSavageLee1 It's highly reactive, but that is due more to the publishing industry and less to what is written. There are too many good stories out there that have been rejected because no one wants to publish them because they are too unique.

Does commercial fiction shape culture or respond to it? #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity

@AngieMBrady I loved his books, though it took some time before I felt like I understood them

@SusanSavageLee1 I’d like to try a literary fiction novel that mirrors Nietzche, with a nice dose of existential dread in there. Waiting for my writing to be stronger before I attempt it 💪🏻

@fishclamor I wanted to do a horror story. I have who the “you” is, but not who the person using second-person is

@SusanSavageLee1 which issues susan? talk if you want; i've got several second person stories in different registers. the hardest one, i'm still working on: he is telling the story in 2nd person, but not to a "you"--one thing: it can make the narrator ambiguous & i am trying to have it both ways

@merelecroix That sounds like a really cool story!

@SusanSavageLee1 I've used 2nd-person 3 times. In 2, it was more like an invisible 1st-person breaking 4th wall to talk *you* through the story. One was 2nd-person framing around 30+ 1st-person voices. I'd like to do a grangerized story but haven't figured out some/most of the in-sentence art.

@PaulHefka The book from my post did the same thing

@SusanSavageLee1 Repetitive scenes where the characters reveal the same information. Like, I get it already... we gotta save the princess. blah blah blah.

What do you consider lazy plot development? Like don’t pretend we’re at the MC’s funeral when we’re really at JimBob’s. Then at the chapter’s end, we learn the truth #WritingCommunity

@A_Weaverdyck 😂

@SusanSavageLee1 The thing clearly stated early on as "I/we will never XYZ" becomes literally the only solution to the problem. AKA Fantastic 4 - We will never put the baby in danger! 45 minutes later - Our only hope is to put the baby in danger! Ummm yeah duh, we aaaaalllll saw it coming

@GridanceStudio One of these days, I’m going to do it!

Writing in 2nd person is such a bold move! ✍️ It’s notoriously tricky because the reader’s psyche has to perfectly align with the 'You' on the page. I found that doing a psychological deep-dive early on is the only way to keep that POV from falling apart. (Actually pinned a 50-question workbook on my profile exactly for this kind of character-mapping if it helps!)

@vwsauthor I think some people do it to sell books. That just depresses me

@SusanSavageLee1 Why would I do that? I may not disclose information, but not create deliberate and extended misleading scenes. I find it annoying, and I assume my readers would too.

@AmarthiaAuthor What a cool project!

@SusanSavageLee1 My books center on a secret organization 3000 years old. I'd love to write stories from the "early days", but to do it correctly, I need to study more about how books from that time period were written. Nothing is more cringe than an 8th-century epic using modern lingo.