Perspectives

So I went back and looked at some comments on my old fics and someone commented about how she loved that I wrote only the one characters perspective.

And that’ something I feel really strongly about. We all have things we love.

I LOVE writing from just one perspective. I feel it makes every narrator unreliable, because they will always see the world through their own experiences, perceptions and beliefs. Like, if a character is used to seeing betrayal, they’ll always see things through that lens. And I think it makes for really effective suspense building, and tension. 

Because we don’t KNOW what the other characters are thinking, what their motivations are. We only have our one perspective, which is how life is. Unless someone tells us their thoughts, we only have ourselves. If that makes sense.

But thing is, I’m working on an original fic and it’s REALLY hard to write just the one perspective… And I WANT to write the other perspective… BUT it doesn’t work with my overall narrative structure.

Anyway. Just some writing ramblings.