Ooh, here you go introducing a nice question again! :mrgreen:
Why did you opt for the person (first/third/mixture) that you write your story in?
This one is simple – because I don’t have a single main character in the story. There’s a lot of convoluted storylines interacting with each other, and to show it all from one person’s POV only would limit the story so much that readers might not understand what’s going on anymore. Imagine only ever seeing things from Gawain’s perspective, or only from Arthur’s or Morgana’s. You’d miss things, and I’m pretty sure you’d get sick of them at some point, haha.
What do you think the main pros and cons of that approach are?
Hmm… The biggest pro is that I get to tell a story from many different viewpoints, and can switch between characters as I please. Sick of Morgana? Let’s show Gawain. Or Arthur. Or Agravaine. Or Emrys. With that many people there’s always something happening, so I never run out of ideas.
The biggest con, for me personally, is that I sometimes lose the forest for the trees. There’s too many ideas. I have so many characters that it gets overwhelming. And the list just keeps growing. And a chapter can only have so many things happening at once, so I often cut stuff out. Lionel had two extra scenes of him being a potato. Gawain has two little brothers that adore him. Sarah flirts with every knight that moves. Percival went on a date. Uther likes doing story teller voices. They all have fears and wants and desires and thoughts and it gets a little much sometimes. I can never get them all, no matter how much they bug me for more screentime. :sweat_smile:
Are you ever tempted to switch it up?
Sometimes, yeah. But I prefer 3rd person over 1st person, so I think I will stick with what comes naturally for me.
If you write from multiple people's POV, how do you decide who's perspective each chapter/segment is going to be from?
Whoever is most relevant to the scene, unless there are secrets happening that I don’t want you to know about yet. There’s a reason why you never hear certain people’s thoughts, even if it would make sense in the scene. If someone shows up a lot, but you never see their thoughts pop up, or all of a sudden the POV switches to someone else, then there’s something hidden there.