Day 21 - What's your POV?
Taxes are done and in the mail, so I'm back at my keyboard writing again and it feels good to be here. I'm still struggling with the plot. There are some gaping holes and inconsistencies that I need to work out, but I'm up to 20,000 words. When I wrote my first MS, I couldn't decide between first or third person point of view (POV). There are pros and cons for each. It's most common (but not a rule) for a mystery to be in one POV only. And, as Donald Murray, my esteemed university journalism professor pointed out, third person POV close can feel as intimate as first person when done well. That said, I tried both and discovered something interesting: I cannot write third person. It just doesn't work for me. That's probably a cop out, and if I tried harder I could do it, but it just feels unnatural -- like wearing someone else's clothes. (I almost said underwear, but that's just too weird.) I struggled through a couple of chapters before d...