It’s Friday and I did not want to leave you in the no-good, low-down funk I was in yesterday. What cured me? Several doses of decongestant and three hours at the keyboard, that’s what. I’m not positive I’ve escaped the awful bug, but at least I feel better about the novel I’m finishing. I don’t want to be known as a quitter and neither should you.
Writing Tip for Today: In novel writing class, we discussed point of view in the novel. When you think about which character should be telling the novel’s story, ask yourself: Which character will change the most? Which character has the most to lose?
If the character who answers those questions is too something (mean, crazy, evil, good, brilliant) you might want to choose a secondary character to narrate at least part of the story. The narrator and the protagonist are not necessarily the same person. Think of Ahab and Ishmael, Watson and Holmes. The protagonist should be the one who owns the story (has more to lose, is going to change the most), but the narrator may be someone in a better position to relate the story.