I LOVE that story! I mean, I know you wrote it a long time ago...but I still love it But yeah, it's funny when that happens. Cuz then it's like "damnit!" Uhhh...switchi ng POV now! I used to hate reading stories where the POV switches but now it's like...it depends on how it's done. When you can't even tell whose POV you're reading because it's so back and forth it's confusing!
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.