There are only two more days until my vacation. I’ll be able
to enjoy five days of uninterrupted writing time. Well, maybe a few interruptions,
like turkey, stuffing, pie, black Friday, my sister coming in from San Diego,
entertaining the kiddies who are out of school, and…the list goes on.
But I should have some NaNo time.
My work-in-progress, FIXED, is shaping up now that I’m
editing as I write it. For those who followed my NaNo journey last year, you
know I like to experiment.
This time, I added in a new POV character, Landry,
to the story. I wondered how he felt about all the crazy
happenings in Mala’s world.
His chapter…wow, it felt wonderful to write. It got my mojo
flowing again. After I wrote his chapter, Mala’s chapters wrote themselves with
little effort from me. I love when that happens, but I was afraid it wouldn’t
with story after the rocky beginning.
I’m now on Chapter 8, which will be a Landry chapter. I
wrote the first one in 3rd person, past tense. I didn’t want it to
be confused with Mala’s 1st person, present tense.
I’m not sure
whether it’s too jarring of a change. If necessary, I can always go back and
convert it after I’m finished. I won’t worry about it until I get feedback from
my critique partners.
I need your opinion. Do you find books with dual POV’s
that are written in different POV’s distracting or is it better to have such a distinct separation?
