Introduction
This story was born of many elements.
It was actually the first of the Shooter stories that I wrote. I wanted to plunge deep into how a sniper thinks. That made it one of the few stories written in the first person.
Writing with “I” poses some interesting challenges.
Many writing teachers say that it is terribly restrictive because you can only know what the main character knows. Only walk through their thoughts. No omniscient overview. No other character to see what the other can’t…including their own reactions.
But it is also incredibly liberating, because we (both the reader and the writer) get to know exactly what that person is thinking, seeing, and feeling. There grows a very close bond between the reader and the point-of-view character that can’t be recreated in th
