How about changing between 1st and 3rd person?

by Clare Williams
26th April 2017

Me again

I know there are some books which do this successfully, but in general would readers find it confusing to switch between 1st and 3rd person POV? It would be each chapter, rather than switching mid-way through one.

Thanks

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Not if it's done as you say, by chapter, Clare. Many novels change POV between different characters; the only difference would be that you'd have one POV in first person.

It can be done within a chapter, but there must be a scene break between one voice and the next.

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