I bet that this has been discussed a thousand times, but still I'd like to get your opinions.
The story is a suspense/thriller following a woman who is looking for her daughter who ran away. I started out very classic: third person limited + past tense with three POVs. Somewhen along in the story I had the impression I needed to change POV, because my novel lost focus. A bit driven by the notion that 1st person/present tense is in fashion i tried out this combination, reducing the lead to two povs. It worked well for me as the plot came together nicely. However, the word count remained low clocking in at 63k.
Somehow I wanted to get the third pov from the original into play. This character's story intrigues me, but I personally do not enjoy reading books with three first person povs, why should I write it then? So I rewrote the novel into third person limited / past tense and added his. This time the focus remains, I only need to convert the written chapters and add chapters with the third pov.
So far so good?
No. I keep slipping into first person/present tense. I have to force myself to stay in line. Now the idea came up to use third person/present tense.
My question to you:
What do you think about the combination third/present versus third/ past?
The story is a suspense/thriller following a woman who is looking for her daughter who ran away. I started out very classic: third person limited + past tense with three POVs. Somewhen along in the story I had the impression I needed to change POV, because my novel lost focus. A bit driven by the notion that 1st person/present tense is in fashion i tried out this combination, reducing the lead to two povs. It worked well for me as the plot came together nicely. However, the word count remained low clocking in at 63k.
Somehow I wanted to get the third pov from the original into play. This character's story intrigues me, but I personally do not enjoy reading books with three first person povs, why should I write it then? So I rewrote the novel into third person limited / past tense and added his. This time the focus remains, I only need to convert the written chapters and add chapters with the third pov.
So far so good?
No. I keep slipping into first person/present tense. I have to force myself to stay in line. Now the idea came up to use third person/present tense.
My question to you:
What do you think about the combination third/present versus third/ past?
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