Post History
For me, it depends on whether the backstory is completely true or not. Swapping to first person (almost a monologue) permits the new story teller to lie. Holding it in third person makes it 'true...
Answer
#3: Attribution notice added
by
System
·
2019-12-08T10:34:54Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/41356 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
by
Peter Woolley
·
2019-12-08T10:34:54Z (over 4 years ago)
For me, it depends on whether the backstory is completely true or not. Swapping to first person (almost a monologue) permits the new story teller to lie. Holding it in third person makes it 'true'. Changing narrator may not be common now, but has been used in the past (Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins that I know of). Fundamentally, whatever works for the story you are telling.
#1: Imported from external source
by
System
·
2019-01-16T16:29:29Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 0