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27/7/09 18:51![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owlectomySo this morning I was thinking about one of my subplots. It's a lost-love subplot featuring a less major character.
Up till now, the book has been in 1st person. The problem with doing a romance subplot in first person that doesn't evolve the narrator is that she has to spend a lot of time eavesdropping or conveniently overhearing. And she has to care enough to do so. And it might just be saturated with some "Here, let me tell you my entire backstory."
That is not going to work.
In theory I don't really like first-person stories with more than one narrator. Confusing. I'm also not a fan of having one first-person narrator and other sections in third-person. Obviously you can pull off either one if the story requires it, but like second-person, it's a choice you have to justify pretty hard.
So I guess I'm rewriting the whole thing in third person. Bother.
Up till now, the book has been in 1st person. The problem with doing a romance subplot in first person that doesn't evolve the narrator is that she has to spend a lot of time eavesdropping or conveniently overhearing. And she has to care enough to do so. And it might just be saturated with some "Here, let me tell you my entire backstory."
That is not going to work.
In theory I don't really like first-person stories with more than one narrator. Confusing. I'm also not a fan of having one first-person narrator and other sections in third-person. Obviously you can pull off either one if the story requires it, but like second-person, it's a choice you have to justify pretty hard.
So I guess I'm rewriting the whole thing in third person. Bother.