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Jan. 28th, 2008 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pezA story I'm working on has two povs: third and first, because there's a story within the story, told in first person.
I'm about half way through now, and am reading what I've written so far. One thing that struck me is that my third and first pov don't sound very different. >________> Apart from some smaller things, it's almost as if it just had a change of pronouns. The nature of the first person pov (the voice of the story teller) is to partly blame, but... I wished I could say it's because I write third person pov in a rather personal way, but I really don't think so. HA. FAIL.
Damn, I really don't know if this is a good or bad thing. And I hate showing anyone incomplete stuff unless it is "here's a bit I think I'm never gonna finish". So maybe I'll just have to grit my teeth and finish it first, then think about adding more to the first person pov's language, without ruining characterisation. Which is going to be pretty hard work.
I'm about half way through now, and am reading what I've written so far. One thing that struck me is that my third and first pov don't sound very different. >________> Apart from some smaller things, it's almost as if it just had a change of pronouns. The nature of the first person pov (the voice of the story teller) is to partly blame, but... I wished I could say it's because I write third person pov in a rather personal way, but I really don't think so. HA. FAIL.
Damn, I really don't know if this is a good or bad thing. And I hate showing anyone incomplete stuff unless it is "here's a bit I think I'm never gonna finish". So maybe I'll just have to grit my teeth and finish it first, then think about adding more to the first person pov's language, without ruining characterisation. Which is going to be pretty hard work.
