Third Person

The third person.

When I write my stories I always write in first person. Sky’s Content is in Yuri’s perspective and I’ve become so accustomed to thinking of things like: What does she know as a character? What do I know as an author? What details is she missing? etc. There are so many things that happen in the story that I know but is never told because Yuri never has any knowledge of it happening.

There’s also a lot of stuff that does happen but I never put because it doesn’t really fit into the flow of the story. BUT ANYWAYS.

So now I’m trying to write the second part of Sky’s Content in the third person and I’m really struggling. I’m so used to concentrating on her feelings and what’s happening to her in the moment I don’t really know how write where I have to explain other’s feelings as well. But at the same time I don’t really know how to write in third person grammatically. What sort of tenses am I suppose to use, and how I can write the story so that my own voice comes out. I don’t want to just write the story like it’s just saying what happens, I want to be able to say ‘this is what happens and this is how it affects each person.’

I know that I can just stick in the first person if I really wanted to, but there’s so much that happens outside of Yuri’s little bubble now that so much of the story would be lost. And I need to get comfortable in the third person anyways. For a lot of the story ideas I have the best way to write them is in third person.

It’s just sort of really frustrating because I feel a disconnect between what I’m writing down and what I want to say. It’s like I’m a two year old whose trying to talk and do it’s own thing but just physically can’t yet. x_X

BLAH.

My plan to fix this right now is to read a lot of books in the third person and just see how the style is written. At the same time I want to do some writing exercises to improve my grammar and the overall flow of my writing.

Let’s hope I can become more comfortable with third person because this is REALLY annoying.

BLLLLLLLAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.