I don't have any trouble with floating first, but that might just be because I grew up reading comics from the days when first-person narrative caption boxes were the in thing.
What bothers me is when there is a concrete explanation for how the words are getting on the page, and it doesn't work, like when it's somebody's journal but they shouldn't rightly be having time to write all this stuff down. Or like "The Yellow Wallpaper", which starts out as concrete first and ends as floating first without any explicit point of transition.
Conversely, I appreciate a good bit of concrete first, like Gene Wolfe's Latro novels, which show a lot of thought put into when it makes sense for the protagonist to find time to write, and also incorporate his journal in other ways, like having something happen that the reader recognises as connecting to something from an earlier journal entry but Latro doesn't think anything of because for him it was weeks ago and he's forgotten about the earlier thing.
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Date: 2014-08-21 09:27 am (UTC)What bothers me is when there is a concrete explanation for how the words are getting on the page, and it doesn't work, like when it's somebody's journal but they shouldn't rightly be having time to write all this stuff down. Or like "The Yellow Wallpaper", which starts out as concrete first and ends as floating first without any explicit point of transition.
Conversely, I appreciate a good bit of concrete first, like Gene Wolfe's Latro novels, which show a lot of thought put into when it makes sense for the protagonist to find time to write, and also incorporate his journal in other ways, like having something happen that the reader recognises as connecting to something from an earlier journal entry but Latro doesn't think anything of because for him it was weeks ago and he's forgotten about the earlier thing.