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Q&A Writing a first-person novel where the MC gets temporarily taken out of commission?

I've decided that this novel would work best as a first person POV, and I generally wouldn't like to give that up. However, toward the end of the book, there's a series of scenes where the main cha...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by KayleeTam‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:10:15Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/30852
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar KayleeTam‭ · 2019-12-08T07:10:15Z (almost 5 years ago)
I've decided that this novel would work best as a first person POV, and I generally wouldn't like to give that up. However, toward the end of the book, there's a series of scenes where the main character is helpless and unable to trust his own sensory experience, and it's up to his friends to save the day.

Given that he won't be able to see or (at the moment) understand how his friend is helping him, I'd like to switch POVs, but I'm not sure that the complexity or theme of my novel is upright or self-conscious enough to support that kind of jarring experience for the reader.

I could just leave it all in first-person as an introspective, and have the friend explain afterward how he saved him, but since the MC is possessed at the time, I'd like to be able to show the reader what the experience is like for his friends as well.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2017-10-16T21:29:15Z (about 7 years ago)
Original score: 3