Hi, YWSers!
I have this novel I'm trying to revise, and I can't seem to put it together.
What I have:
- some parts that are narrated by my 1st MC, and some others that are narrated by a 2nd MC. Now, I feel that in the beginning, and in the end, 1st person POVS do not bring any advantages. So what I want to do is to begin in 3rd person and end likewise. Is this even allowed? I feel like I'm messing up things, and I've tried and tried and tried all over again to write the novel in 3rd person, but it just doesn't work. Then, I tried to resume all story to one single 1st person POV, but that doesn't work either because I want both my main characters to be treated equally, since they bring the same contribution to the story.
My question is... do you think that beginning in a neutral, 3rd person narrative to describe the lives of both my MCs, and then dedicate one chapter to one MC, the other to the other and so on?
Also I've had this idea that I could start the story from a friend's POV, who has the diaries of both MC1 and MC2 and alternate the POVS on this ground, so both characters wrote a diary and their friend puts them all together chronologically? Would it be a better option?
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