On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Jeanne Hedge wrote:

Like you seem to be implying, I've also heard that writing in the 1st person
is *very* difficult 

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	It actually comes pretty easy for me.  I don't know why.  And I
can't explain why I like the style so much, either.  I didn't go crazy
over the Amber novels (which are done in first person), and I'm not really
fond of most "hard-boiled" detective stories.

	The hardest part is generally avoiding the temptation to use a lot
of flashbacks to explain "what has gone before".  A flashback is really a
terribly artificial thing, since most people just don't remember the past
as a sudden rush of memories at convenient times.  Short stabs of memory
(snippets of conversation, images) are much more common, at least in my
experience.

Chris Davies.