I know this sounds totally crazy even to my own ears but I was wondering if it was possible in a novel. I have three very different characters in my novel but all their lives meet in the story so can I tell their stories in first person? Or do you think it would be best to have them all in third person which in terribly hard for me to do.
It's your novel! Don't let anyone tell you what you can or can't do. Go for it!
There are actually quite a few novels that have an alternating 1st person POV. Jodi Picoult does this I think in My Sister's Keeper. It all depends on what you aim to do, and as you say you have 3 distinct characters, so long as you take care to keep each voice distinct from one another, then your readers shouldn't have trouble differentiating who's who.
Just remember to make each voice reflect the radically different characters, and you should be fine. Another suggestion is to switch chapters every time you switch PoVs, and each chapter name is the name of the character. Just to make it easier at the beginning to tell what you're doing.
A writer is a world trapped in a person— Victor Hugo
Ink is blood. Paper is bandages. The wounded press books to their heart to know they're not alone.
I did this in my novel and it's easy once you know how it works. I originally started with more points of view than I do now, so I would advise you to make sure that all the point of views are necessary. Could you do without them or would it suffer?
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