First person, third person or both.. I can't decide, please help!
My WIP is a story primarily of three charecters. Two of the charecters are together for most of the book, the third charecter has a seemingly seperate story until the two stories converge towards the end.
Two of these charecters also die at the end. The third charecter with the seperate story as well as one of the two charecters who are always together.
For the third charecter I find that a limit 3rd person perspective fits fell, and is easy to write. It is the other two charecters that I'm having trouble with.
I can't decide whether to write them in first person or third and keep switching back and forth. Sometimes it feels right to use the first person as the charecters disclose their inner most feelings and thoughts on what's happening around them, at other times I feel more distance is needed or the novel will become far too introspective.
The other problem here is that the charecter that lives in the end is the one who's inner most thoughts I'm focussing the least on, so I can't really right it from their first person perspective.
So I guess the questions are...
How okay is it to have different POV's in the same book?
Say 3rd person all the way for the sperate charecter.
1st person for the two other charecters (switching between them from chapter to chapter)
The problem with this is that will readers accept having a first person perspective told in the past tense from a charecter who dies in the end? If he's dead.. then how can he be telling his story. (i've thought of the journal workaround but it feels too cliched)
Sometimes I think it would be easier just to make the whole thing 3rd person..
any advice or help is greatly appreciated!
My WIP is a story primarily of three charecters. Two of the charecters are together for most of the book, the third charecter has a seemingly seperate story until the two stories converge towards the end.
Two of these charecters also die at the end. The third charecter with the seperate story as well as one of the two charecters who are always together.
For the third charecter I find that a limit 3rd person perspective fits fell, and is easy to write. It is the other two charecters that I'm having trouble with.
I can't decide whether to write them in first person or third and keep switching back and forth. Sometimes it feels right to use the first person as the charecters disclose their inner most feelings and thoughts on what's happening around them, at other times I feel more distance is needed or the novel will become far too introspective.
The other problem here is that the charecter that lives in the end is the one who's inner most thoughts I'm focussing the least on, so I can't really right it from their first person perspective.
So I guess the questions are...
How okay is it to have different POV's in the same book?
Say 3rd person all the way for the sperate charecter.
1st person for the two other charecters (switching between them from chapter to chapter)
The problem with this is that will readers accept having a first person perspective told in the past tense from a charecter who dies in the end? If he's dead.. then how can he be telling his story. (i've thought of the journal workaround but it feels too cliched)
Sometimes I think it would be easier just to make the whole thing 3rd person..
any advice or help is greatly appreciated!
