I read the revised version of Self-Editing for the fiction writer, and one thing that caught me by surprise were the editors opinions of interior monologue.
It said something along the lines of this: If you are writing in third person, don't use first person for the interior monologue, because that makes the narrarator and character seem like they are not one in the same. They say you should only use first person monologue in third person narrative if there is narrative distance.
I qustion this, however, because I've read plenty of books in the third person that never maintained narrative distance (and if they did, I never got that sense) and the interior monologue was generally in first.
It said something along the lines of this: If you are writing in third person, don't use first person for the interior monologue, because that makes the narrarator and character seem like they are not one in the same. They say you should only use first person monologue in third person narrative if there is narrative distance.
I qustion this, however, because I've read plenty of books in the third person that never maintained narrative distance (and if they did, I never got that sense) and the interior monologue was generally in first.