https://booksbywomen.org/a-new-perspective-on-perspective/ Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:27:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://booksbywomen.org/a-new-perspective-on-perspective/#comment-60029 Thu, 27 Aug 2020 06:25:08 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=31932#comment-60029 That’s interesting and ‘strikes a chord’. In my recently released novel I had not realised that I had slipped into first person until I was half way through. As you say, if flowed so easily, the main protagonist’s voice flowing on to the page as Dot shared her memories as to how she became homeless.
Writing it’s sequel I felt I needed to distance the novel from Dot as she became the teller of other people’s stories rather than her own. I’ve found this quite painful and empathise with your mountainous task to rewrite your novel in the third person. I hope, like you, I overcome the pain threshold and am set free again to write with a rich variety of perspectives as in my previous novels. Thanks for the article Tanya.

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