Noticing Newbies

Haha, I don't know if there's a 'trick' to it, per se. I've run into the same problem, writing a story in the third-person, and when I went to re-read it, there was a short paragraph I'd accidentally written in first-person.

You just have to stay mindful of it, as well as tense.

I will say that when you switch between the perspectives, make sure there is a very obvious separation, letting the reader know that it's intentional.



"There is wanting the unobtainable, and there is the obtaining of desire, and the greatest of these is the wanting. Especially since the object of desire usually turns out to exist only in some alternate reality, to be mocked by actuality."

-James Blish- "Cities In Flight"