Funny stuff. This morning I was sure my instincts about first person/third person were completely wrong, for the reasons I posted earlier. So, I rewrote everything into the third person. But funnily, as I continued writing it got harder and harder to make it compelling in the third person and by page 11 I was really regretting my decision. I called Muse Margaret, but she'd already gone to bed. So, we'll talk at noon, but I already did a save as and did another complete rewrite back into first person and I think my original instinct was absolutely right and shame on me for not trusting it - but better to go back and forth at this early stage than figure it out later. Everything in the first person version seems to have a better flow and everything becomes more personal, which is really important in this book. I was concerned that it would limit my ability to comment on things later in the story, but that's just me being me. It's just as easy for the first person character to comment and it will probably work better anyway. So, that's what I've been doing. At noon, I will read Muse Margaret the first page of each version, but I already know she'll like the first person better because we'd discussed it and she felt as I did that it was the way to go. When I told her I was changing it and the reasons, she was fine with it, but I still think she preferred it the way I'd thought about doing it in the first place.
