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[kathleenfoucart]

I'm currently reworking THE TIES OF BLOOD, my alt-world Regency-era dark wizardy YA, a.k.a. my heart book. Adding the MC's "girlfriend's" POV wound up working much better than I'd expected, but something was still not-quite-right. Isi's first person sections were taking over the narrative, her voice so compelling it was detracting from the MC's

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[kathleenfoucart]

*bops anyway* ;-)

Thanks! I'm kinda in love with that line at the moment. I just hope the rest of the chapter(s) live up to it!

[fabulousfrock]

Gosh, I just adore those kind of moments when they come to you and, you know, tell you things that click everything into place!

[kathleenfoucart]

Yes! So great. Especially when this particular character has been whispering in my ear for 9 freaking years. :)

[jennygordon]

[kathleenfoucart]

I always say it doesn't hurt to try it. If you write a chapter in the other voice & it works, woohoo! If it doesn't, well, you've only written one chapter & writing exercises are never a waste :)

That said, I wouldn't take anything I say about this particular project to be "the norm" for me! o_O I sure hope every book I write doesn't take nearly a decade to work!

[jennygordon]

[kathleenfoucart]

dear god I hope so ;-)

[edgyauthor]

Yay you for finding A's voice! Don't you just love writing revelations like that?! I know I do!

First person had been odd for me in the past, too, when I first tried it out, but now I love it. It's way too much fun getting thoroughly lost in a character's mindset like that, no matter what they're going through!

[kathleenfoucart]

Yeah, I really do like first better than third now, so it makes sense for me to move this one to third it's just Very Different :)