I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.
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My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works.
Using a first-person narrator is simply a matter of hearing the voice inside yourself.
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.
The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
Voices have always been my way into a character. I usually approach the voice first.
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'
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