User blog comment:Grizzly Bear/Writing In Third Person!/@comment-24821182-20140531175751/@comment-25558572-20140531183049

I hate to seem demeaning, but it is pretty true that there are plenty of teenage revenge fantasies. Then again, most stories I have seen here actually tend to have decent plots. If the author would change the point of view to their own, then the story could become a lot more interesting.

There are exceptions, of course. For parctice I wrote about a fake car crash that was viewed by a group of students who believed it was real, it was effective to have one of the 'victims' tell about what he perceived to be going on. But diaries and journals are very rarely impressive and are all too often totally unbelievable.