I see a lot of readers discussing the first-person issues of this book.,Think about it, let's explain it to everyone~.

First of all, why use the first person?

Because the first person is the most customary form of perspective expression for reasoning.

Detective reasoning, especially ontological reasoning, is a special genre, and its main attraction is puzzle setting and puzzle solving.

Generally speaking, both the author and the reader will start the process from the identity of a puzzle solver, through the discovery of clues layer by layer, peeling back the cocoon, and even discovering the truth before the detective to get the pleasure of reading.

From this point of view, the first person leads the reader into the detective role, which is the most convenient and realistic.

You may have played Script Kill. In the game, everyone gets a script that basically starts with "me", and you won't know the scripts of the other characters - if you knew everything, the game wouldn't be playable.

Therefore, if you want to open a full perspective in a reasoning, it is a special thing to burn the piano and cook the crane, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this one is ruined.

Therefore, if you look through the representative works of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign speculators, you will find that when they usually choose the personal point of view, most of them are in the first person, or the enhanced third person follows the form (like the first person) to intervene in the story.

From Edgar Allan Poe, the originator of reasoning, to Conan Doyle's "Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection", to Shinbunge's Shoji Shimada and Ayatsuji Yukito, to recent writers such as Maya Yusong and Nishizawa Yasuhiko, most of their masterpieces are in the first person, or the third-person perspective that closely follows the detective (such as Yokozo Masashi's Kaneda Ichikosuke series).

Secondly, is there an all-perspective reasoning?

Yes.

But all-encompassing reasoning is basically narrative trickery in the end.

I've also written about the full perspective before, telling the story from the action lines of five or six characters, and finally writing about narrative trickery.

But the problem is that for a long story like "Ten Evils", which is expected to be more than a million words, it is particularly troublesome to open a narrative trick, and the reader's final perception will be very bad, which will make people feel that after reading more than a million words, they dare to love the author and play with me.

Is there a long narrative?

Yes. For example, Orihara's "Inverted" series - but unfortunately, this series is also basically first-person main ......

Third, "Ten Evils in the City" is not a completely first-person perspective.

There is a particularly significant flaw in traditional reasoning, that is, everything depends on the detective, whether it is the occurrence of the case, the process of solving the case and the final analysis are written by the detective alone.

As a perennial mystery writer, I am well aware of this limitation. So, in this one, I set the story as a timeline in a semi-past tense.

In addition, in addition to the main line and the main facts of the case, the suspects, victims, murderers, truth answers, and even the situations faced by other detectives are basically told from the third person, which not only tries to overcome the limitations of the first-person perspective, but also does not harm the original puzzle solving process of the case.

Fourth, the first-person protagonist in the game does not have the drawbacks of the general first-person "I" ability to be infinitely open and boastful.

If you enter, you will find that "I" is just a normal person similar to you and me.

He doesn't have the kind of open-hanging character that moves the world with one palm, destroys people with two palms, hides mastiffs with three palms, and burns the universe with four palms, and he doesn't have the hegemonic position of seeing who loves him, and embracing the left and right. His perception of the case is closer to the reader's feelings.

Fifth, if I want to start a new one in the future, I plan to try to strengthen the third-person writing.

Finally, thank you again for your support of Ten Evils! By the way, I asked for votes again with a big face~