POV Help!

[tweetyiscool29]

(Note:  If you're doing WriYe and this looks familiar, it's because I posted the exact same plea in the forums :P)

Ok, I need some help here, but it might be a *wee* bit complicated, so bear with me.

A few years back I started writing a story for a final project in a crative writing class (project was to write chapter 1 of a novel and a synopsis of

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[opportunemoment]

The problem with doing MC chapters in 1st and others in 3rd - which I think is generally going to be the clearest way to do it, from the reader perspective - is that it might look like it's still the MC narrating the 3rd person chapters, when actually things happen in them that she doesn't know about. It gives you different POV issues.

Although there are exceptions to the rule. The example I always remember is the Jasper Fforde Thursday Next books, which are close 1st person except just one or two scenes which aren't. It does work...

(Interestingly, I'm having the same problem, or at least a similar one, with one of my WIPs. :S The trick I'm using is trying to include 'found documents', other people's diary entries, that sort of thing, for the bits Cressida wasn't present for. I don't know if it'll work all the way through, but it's a thought.)

[tweetyiscool29]

hmm, doccuments. a la Dracula. Kinda. That could work. Except most of my characters arent' likely to keep diaries, so that doens't work so well with mine either x.x

Though I think the 1st person & 3rd person *could* word because it would (hopefully!) be clearly an external narrator (after all, what kind of MC narrates the chapters she's not in and talks about other's feelings towards her? It COULD happen, but seems a bit... odd, I guess)

[tweetyiscool29]

Actually, the doccuments thing COULD work. The more I thought about it just now I realized we read a book that was done in that style in my last Lit Class - "The Odd Women" Or was it "The Moonstone"? Both?

Anyhoo, in whichever one I'm thinking of, the different characters penned (and commented on!) the events of different parts of the story. The only thing would be with mine it'd be a LOT more swapping. But a heading "From the Desk of (insert name here)" or something similar could work out. Just changes the style a bit.

Hmm...

TY for the input :D

[kandybar]

I've read books in the past that had multiple first person POVs where the author merely stated at the beginning of each chapter who it was.

Like this:
CHAPTER TWO

CINDY

I was having the worst day, blah blah blah.

It's not subtle, but there you are.

[tweetyiscool29]

That's *kinda* how I have it presently. Instead of it being in the chapter title, it's in the Author Notes.

Come to think of it, that's how Babysitter's Club did it. Hmm..