Lately I’ve been reading a lot of first person novels. I’m writing my mystery series in first person
and think this exercise may be helpful.
Sometimes I second guess myself though and think I should change it all
to third person, although I like getting into one person’s head and going with
it. I don’t know if this will be a smart
move or not.
It seems every first person novel I read is entirely
different from the last one. I wonder if
this is right or not. I have come to the
realization that having more then four-five viewpoints are too many for a first
person story. So now it’s back to the
drawing board for those extra people’s roles in the story. I need to work that in some other way,
perhaps though dialogue with a more major character.
I’m a very long winded person, come story or real life, so
this is very hard for me to do – cut things back to the bare minimum. I’m working on it and sometimes this entails
beating my head on the wall. Eventually,
I’ll come up with a story worth reading, I hope.
