Hey, CSI:NY?

[agilebrit]

I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to make me feel sorry for your serial killer. But DAMN.

Well done. *claps* That poor son of a bitch.

Also, I'm reading the fourth Cal Leandros book by Rob Thurman (robgoodfella), and she's done something here that you don't get to see in published fiction very often--she's got two first person POV characters alternating chapters.

Have I mentioned my first-person squee-age here? Maybe? I love first person. If I could get away with first person POV in all my fiction, I'd so use it, all the time.

In fact...

I just had a thought, about the not!Iron Man. Seeing as how the length makes it nearly unpublishable as-is, maybe I'll play with POV in that. Because I have alternating POV scenes in it, and I love love love the idea. I've done it before with success in fanfic...

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[mermaidrain.livejournal.com]

Ever heard of the novel "East" by Edith Pattou? I think she uses 3 different 1st person POV (at least). It's one of my all time favorite books. Also "Zel" by Donna Jo Napoli (which I really enjoyed) uses several first person POV as well. Rob Thurman likes to defy rules though. I'm several books behind in her series, but I remember being impressed with what she was able to do stylistically in the first book.

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[agilebrit.livejournal.com]

I'm devouring her books right now because I think I can actually learn stuff from her writing. The world-building, the relationships, the characters--the barely-contained insanity that Cal is wrestling with right now...

Yeah. She's GOOD.