How do I do this?

[Former Member]

Okay, so here's my problem: I posted the first chapter of my story Red Light recently, and it's written in third-person narrative mode. Now I want to change the point of view to first-person narrative mode.

 

Is there a way to change the point of view to first-person in the second chapter without having to rewrite the first chapter?

[rec]

While it may be a bit clumsy, I'd just make a note (and/or chapter heading) to the effect that Chapter 2 will be written from so-and-so's point of view. Some day later, you can go back and change the first chapter, particularly if you really like the story.

 

The great advantage of on-line writing for young or new writers is that you can change directions with a flick of the mouse.

[hh5]

Here is a discussion about https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/26632-writing-in-1st-or-3rd-person-perspective/

 

There was a lot of talk about it.

 

In my writing its first person ... I do it because its easier to be in the characters head more than a third person POV and also I take the lazy way out to avoid some other things

 

I think I did two chapters with Narrators POV\God Mode - I suspect that really this became my touching of third person ... because I am no longer in the characters POV and I never wrote what the Narrator was thinking ... all of it was observational.

 

Are only have spots of first person??

 

Maybe you can put a note ... if your have Character in bold above the paragraph then its First person for the duration of the chapter and if not there then its third person.

 

The debate of first person is the use of "I" in third person ... josh said this and jane said that ... no "I" is ever used.

 

Much of the thread link talks about how much they love third person ... even Harry Potter is written in third person.

 

Its written in such a ways as to lead you to what the character is possibly feeling or thinking.

 

I guess I am not use to things like that ... I am fine with writing first person ... I think of it as acting

 

Now my quesition is when you watch Harry Potter ... is is first person or third person?

[AranaDarkwolf]

I've only really meddled with flashing backward and forward in time in my own writing, but I've seen books in which the first "chapter" was more like a prologue written in third person and then the rest of the book switched to first person. If you look at "The Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty," Ann Rice, writing as A.N. Rocquelar actually manages to pull of the third person to first person and back again transition really well.