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Sir Huron Stone:
I'm having trouble deciding how to write my story. It's easier for me to write in first person, but I like being able to bounce around in 3rd person. Any way to combine the two?

LDWriter2:

--- Quote from: Sir Huron Stone on June 27, 2012, 01:45:11 AM ---I'm having trouble deciding how to write my story. It's easier for me to write in first person, but I like being able to bounce around in 3rd person. Any way to combine the two?

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I think only if you change POVs every so often. Some writers have done that.  Usually it's 3rd but every so often they throw in a 1st POV for a certain character.

But stretching yourself is suppose to be good.

Sir Huron Stone:
Mh. True.

OZ:
I have read some that were mostly first person but would use third person to talk about things that were happening away from the first person narrator. One way that this could work is that the first person narrator is writing the story far enough in the future that they are now aware of some of the things that happened in other places even though they did not know about them at the time they were happening.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:

--- Quote from: OZ on June 27, 2012, 03:21:47 AM ---I have read some that were mostly first person but would use third person to talk about things that were happening away from the first person narrator.

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Doing that pretty much always feels sloppy to me, fwiw.  Far better to get the information in around the first-person narrator somehow, as indeed the novels of the DF do well, and better as they go along.

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