u/Gautier_Alias

Without giving away too much of the story, the main character was born in the US, lived there for 11 years, moved to another country for 7 years, then moved back to the US, so she became slightly less proficient in English, not forgetting the language, but she wouldn’t make the best literary prosaist.

Additionally, her character isn’t really book smart, but she is very street smart, so I feel that her prose language might be limited in that aspect.

I also realized that when I write in first person, it sounds too objective, and when I try to place in her thoughts, it sounds too corny.

On the other hand, I feel like reading her perspective would be very insightful to how she feels about the main antagonist and the depth of her emotions.

So given this small overview, should I write in first or third person.

I wanted to get into writing and one thing I have been doing is searching random books on google and seeing if the books are considered to have good writing. I saw Twilight was said to have really bad writing because of poor pacing and purple prose, but I just finished it and it seems like a pretty solid book to me. It’s a genuine page-turner. What exactly is wrong with it that I might be missing that I cannot, under any circumstances, put in prose?