Post History
It is never too late to change from first person to third. Writing in first person is almost always a bad idea. It is a confining suffocating point of view. When it does work, it is usually as a fr...
Answer
#4: Attribution notice removed
by
System
·
2020-01-03T20:41:52Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/26100 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#3: Attribution notice added
by
System
·
2019-12-08T05:56:59Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/26100 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
by
System
·
2019-12-08T05:56:59Z (over 4 years ago)
It is never too late to change from first person to third. Writing in first person is almost always a bad idea. It is a confining suffocating point of view. When it does work, it is usually as a frame or a covert form or omniscient. But those are not techniques for beginners to mess with. Change it. Change it now. Thank your stars you have come to your senses before you did more damage. And don't listen to the people saying that now is the wrong time to change, that you should finish your story first. A story is a rising arc of tension. That tension is created by the manner of telling every bit as much as it is created by the incidents of the plot. There are seven plots in all of fiction (the numbers vary, but they are all small). Everything lies in the telling. And third person is the right voice for telling the vast majority of stories.
#1: Imported from external source
by
System
·
2017-01-16T14:17:31Z (over 7 years ago)
Original score: 1