Thursday, August 27, 2009

Ideas on narrative voice

The only novel I've ever really liked that was written in plural first person is The Virgin Suicides, and the only book I can think of that uses the second person voice is Self-Help, by Lorrie Moore. I envision much of this novel taking the plural first person voice, though there will be sections narrated in traditional first person. The theory, of course, is that in order to represent the social clumpiness of my cast of characters, and to get into the groupthink mind of such a group brought together by video games, 2nd person is the way to go.

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