Noticing Newbies

One thing I've done in the past is to give different characters different points of view. I.e. character 1 is always written in first-person. Character 2, meanwhile, is written in limited-third.

The trick with that is making sure that it's consistent and never varies. You don't want to write a paragraph in third-person from the viewpoint of a character that has, to this point, been in first-person. The only exception to that possibly being a memory / flashback.



"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"