How about something writer-like today? Since I separated from the company I had been working for, I decided to grow my freelance business – partly by updating my website and establishing this blog. I’m thinking of turning back to the book I had been writing before taking the job, but I’m just not certain I can get back into it. I had also been attending a writers’ critique group up until I got stuck with third shift and was just too tired to go anymore. I had made one rather huge change before leaving the group, and they loved it: I changed the voice of the story from an omniscient narrator to the main character speaking in first-person. I’ve always hated the major drawback to first-person writing: the only events that can occur are the events that your POV character experiences. Since I’d been writing in third person, I have a lot of important scenes that now need to be cut, or possibly re-worked, because they happen without the narrator present. These are pretty poignant scenes in my opinion. It also means (most likely) a total re-write of the first 15 or so chapters of the book. I don’t know if I’m 1) ready to take that on and 2) even interested in taking such a task on. So, my questions to you are: what kind of books do you like to read? Is the narrator omniscient? Or are they written in first-person? Maybe even in present-tense?
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