I'm guessing this is one of those questions where the answer will be DO IT AND SEE...or something like that. I guess we don't really know if anything works unless we first try it out.
After finishing my latest novel--and WAITING ANXIOUSLY FOR MY AGENT TO READ IT--I'm in a place where I want to keep up the momentum. I've gone through 4 not yet but almost completed manuscripts. None of them are calling to me. I'll get there. Whenever one of them calls, I go running.
I started a new one today that's been percolating for over a year.
THING IS....
I have three first person narrators. I set it up so that all three will alternate throughout the novel.
Chapter 1 - Diego Nelson
Chapter 2 - Shania Reynolds
Chapter 3 - Troy Sinclair
Chapter 4 - Diego Nelson
Chapter 5 - Shania Reynolds
Chapter 6 - Troy Sinclair
Etc, etc, etc..
The premise:
A group of delinquent youth are all given the option of youth detention or walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain over the summer holidays. They walk only for a week and a half...not the whole Camino. They walk with a counselor and assistants. Now, there are more than the three kids on the walk...but I feel I need three unique voices to pull off the walk properly for perspective, etc. One of the youth is a good boy who was steered wrong by a crush on a girl who doesn't return his feelings, the second is a girl who is bad, bad, bad...and fully neglected at home, and the third is a gay guy who is doing everything wrong while trying to come to terms with his sexuality...basically a good kid just fallen temporarily off the track.
Obviously, this is a young adult novel.
My worry, after getting 5 chapters in is...will three FP POVs drive people batty? Will it fly? Is it too much? Should I pull back to two? I've had success with two before. I just feel the scope has to be wider...I don't even know why I began this way...I just write and see what happens. It's still early enough that I can change this...
Three First Person POVS Too Much?
After finishing my latest novel--and WAITING ANXIOUSLY FOR MY AGENT TO READ IT--I'm in a place where I want to keep up the momentum. I've gone through 4 not yet but almost completed manuscripts. None of them are calling to me. I'll get there. Whenever one of them calls, I go running.
I started a new one today that's been percolating for over a year.
THING IS....
I have three first person narrators. I set it up so that all three will alternate throughout the novel.
Chapter 1 - Diego Nelson
Chapter 2 - Shania Reynolds
Chapter 3 - Troy Sinclair
Chapter 4 - Diego Nelson
Chapter 5 - Shania Reynolds
Chapter 6 - Troy Sinclair
Etc, etc, etc..
The premise:
A group of delinquent youth are all given the option of youth detention or walking the Camino de Santiago in Spain over the summer holidays. They walk only for a week and a half...not the whole Camino. They walk with a counselor and assistants. Now, there are more than the three kids on the walk...but I feel I need three unique voices to pull off the walk properly for perspective, etc. One of the youth is a good boy who was steered wrong by a crush on a girl who doesn't return his feelings, the second is a girl who is bad, bad, bad...and fully neglected at home, and the third is a gay guy who is doing everything wrong while trying to come to terms with his sexuality...basically a good kid just fallen temporarily off the track.
Obviously, this is a young adult novel.
My worry, after getting 5 chapters in is...will three FP POVs drive people batty? Will it fly? Is it too much? Should I pull back to two? I've had success with two before. I just feel the scope has to be wider...I don't even know why I began this way...I just write and see what happens. It's still early enough that I can change this...
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