Narrative style in a book?
As I mentioned in the last questions, I'm writing a book. What it's about isn't important to you, but I need help choosing characters!
5 characters have the same goal and these 5 characters set out on a journey to pursue a goal (similar to the character selection in Lord of the Rings).
However, I'm not sure if it's smart to have one of the 5 characters tell the story in each chapter and then another one in the next chapter.
That would be a bit much, wouldn't it? But how could I distribute it? Everyone has an important role, and I'd like to write from the perspective of just one main character, but I don't know how to include the others.
Does anyone have any ideas? And I don't want any answers that tell me I should come up with something myself because it's my book! I have the plot and everything I need, I'm just finding it a bit difficult and I'm hoping for some support!
Thanks in advance :))
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Making the perspective of changing chapters makes sense only if there are several stages of action, or the people act very independently at least at times.
You could also have only two figures at the beginning, for example, from their point of view, and as soon as a new line of action develops another third one.
But that’s all taste, it can also work super if you only have one main person…
Okay, thanks š With me, it makes sense only at the beginning and in the first 5 chapters to write something about each character, because it only starts from the 7th. So if I write in the first 5 chapters from each perspective and refer to two main characters in the other chapters? Or just one?
That would be an option, yes, which could also be confusing if some views were suddenly cut off. It depends on the book and the volume, but I would perhaps have the five points of view merged into one or two and scatter the remaining ones quite separately (approximately fromcde fromcde from a.c) bacon b)d bacon bacon b)e if you understand what I mean).
Of course, you donāt have to tell the story from all five perspectives/shouldest: Often it makes sense not to know some people that exactly, but only based on the impressions of others.
Thanks that helps me really very much and that stuffed with the distribution really good!!!
If you write in the third person, that’s it.
Either you write everything from the perspective of an omniscient narrator, then you can switch between the people you’re about.
Or you write as a personal narrator in the third person. For example, in a chapter from the point of view of a character “Erna saw a strange winged animal coming on them” and in the next chapter from the point of view of the next character “Hubert called his dragon back, who wanted to fly again to this nerve saw Erna”.
What I find quite terrible as a reader is changing me counters. I don’t want to think about who’s “I” now.
Hello, because I don’t know much about the story, I don’t know what time she plays.
First, listen to a cool book, wish you a lot of fun writing.
My idea would be that they would exchange themselves regularly via phones or letters.
It is a fantasy book and deals with 5 different characters in 5 different countries, which then meet later and pursue a goal:)
I think the idea is quite good, then exchange by letter would be the better way. Maybe they write each other letters they read and you tell them, while another one of the five writes one, and you tell them again you know how I mean?
Sounds logical and could actually work! Thank you