Chapter Perspectives for my story?
Hey everyone
I'm writing my story from the first-person perspective (what's that called?), and I'd like to ask if it's weird if two characters tell the story for the first five chapters, and then another character appears in the next chapter and talks about their life. I'd do the same for the next two chapters; they'd just show up. So, maybe this whole description sounds a little weird, but if you understand, can you answer me?
Many thanks and kind regards, Nebelklang^^
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So for the first time, it’s exactly what I’m perspective (alternative: “I-counter” , “First person perspective” or “I-form”)
Everything else is not funny, just has to be well written (: A great success!
Let’s say this: I can do a lot as a reader as long as it is well written. Personally, if I write already in the I perspective, I would stay with it or at least I would not change it arbitrarily.
In other words, if you want to tell half of the book from one perspective and the other half from the other perspective and have corresponding cuts in it, then I still find it okay. Until the end of the night, no masterpiece of literature is guaranteed, but the change of perspective in my eyes is tolerable.
Willingly because of ‘A chapter makes Rafael, the next is Daniel who makes Jannik’ I wouldn’t make it. that would be too hard for me as a reader.
In the case of the auktorial narrator, I personally have less one problem with the fact that the perspective changes, because somewhere it remains uniform and usually the cuts are more flowing from the transitions. Then Rafael is beaten K.O. and Daniel turns into a bear to take up the persecution, come back and reveal Rafael an incredible truth.
Is it funny? Yeah, I’m not a fan of such fractures, and I don’t really like to always have to do it together from whose perspective the chapter is straight. In particular, if all figures come together, something can possibly become somewhat more complicated.
Can it be good? Sure. You can do it, no question. But in my eyes, it’s a bit far from something that makes the story more bulky. This does not have to be a problem if the change of perspective is actually ‘value’. But just when you say ‘D and E are also coming to it, they just turn on’ I find it critical.
Because this works at most confusing (not to mention that there are then 5 people who report from the I perspective) and I as readers generally read to inform me (good, that falls away) or as leisure pleasures. I don’t want to be open to anyone else to have to do as if I were at work.
In this sense, consider whether you don’t make the whole thing too complex and whether you can’t relax a bit. For example, by writing as an editorial narrator, or by referring to a ‘me perspective’. WIe said… if I did, I would actually leave the story with the figure. Because it’s just the charm of the I perspective that you can completely enter this figure.
All the best in any case and enjoy writing I wish you:)
Thank you
Hard to answer. It can work, but it can also go next to it. It is best if these different people end up telling a coherent story from different perspectives. That would at least explain why there are so many characters that each tell from their own perspective.
You can do anything theoretically. Apart from grammatical rules and correct spelling, there are no inconvenient rules for how to write something. Try out. You’ll see if it works or not.
I personally wouldn’t want to read this, but I generally don’t like it if there are too many perspectives in a book.
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This is possible, because it sounds like you write only from a perspective per chapter or section. The reader also comes with reading.