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First Person vs. Third Person
mare:
LOL I remember when I first started to write in First person, i'd find myself randomly switching back to third for a paragraph or two then back to first without even realizing I was doing it.
Writing first person from mutliple people is tough but sometimes that's the best way to go if you aren't totally sure what your plot is going to be.
luna610:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on November 11, 2010, 12:02:35 AM ---LOL Fight for Survival? It was so much fun to write... and hey, it's one of the few collabs I've actually FINISHED, so I consider it a success in that sense! We just didn't think it through very much, beyond the basic idea of the plane crash LOL.
Yeah, I think the whole POV switching has to be done carefully. There should be some kind of rhyme or reason to it, and if the two voices aren't distinctive from each other, labels help. Switching POV in mid-chapter is the worst! But not always; Sakabelle's story "Running Up That Hill" switches between Nick's, Brian's, Howie's, and Kevin's POVs in each chapter (four scenes to a chapter, each scene in a different boy's POV), without labels, and it's not hard to follow. But she does a nice job writing in first person, and you can figure out who's narrating pretty quickly. And because that's how the story has always been set up, it doesn't seem random; it was clearly meant to be that way.
I think planning is the key LOL.
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LOL! Yep, that's the one. I love it :) So old school...you know I love my crash stories. :D And I totally agree about Sakabelle's story. I love it and it's very easy to follow. And yes, planning is key. Like for Curtain Call, if you wrote from all Cary's POV I think it would have been very tough to really tell the story. How would you show any scenes with just Nick and the guys? I think that one would have been tough.
luna610:
--- Quote from: mare on November 11, 2010, 03:35:19 PM ---LOL I remember when I first started to write in First person, i'd find myself randomly switching back to third for a paragraph or two then back to first without even realizing I was doing it.
Writing first person from mutliple people is tough but sometimes that's the best way to go if you aren't totally sure what your plot is going to be.
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I love to read that when it's done well. I never really thought about it, but I think I prefer to read first person. I love when the author really gets in the mind of the character and it really does seem like they're talking. lol
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: luna610 on November 11, 2010, 07:56:55 PM ---LOL! Yep, that's the one. I love it :) So old school...you know I love my crash stories. :D And I totally agree about Sakabelle's story. I love it and it's very easy to follow. And yes, planning is key. Like for Curtain Call, if you wrote from all Cary's POV I think it would have been very tough to really tell the story. How would you show any scenes with just Nick and the guys? I think that one would have been tough.
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LOL thanks! And yeah, I agree about CC; she's kind of outside the story, so I think I really needed Nick's POV too, since he's the one going through it all.
Sevily:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on November 11, 2010, 02:16:53 PM ---Thanks! I didn't even know you were reading it. :)
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That's because I suck lol. I usually read between lapses at work, and then don't have time to review, so I make a mental note to review when I get back to my apartment...bu t that never happens...
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