![]() I also keep a character sketch document where I describe each character’s physical characteristics, their relationships to other characters, their motivations, their dreams, and backstory. That way, I can easily filter the spreadsheet and view one character at a time or reference events that happened in previous chapters as I write new ones. I keep a spreadsheet that includes the chapter number, date and time, POV character name, and a summary of events. ![]() There’s a lot to hold in your head at once. Learning to fly would offer him his own escape.Īlthough I enjoy writing in multiple perspectives, I also find it challenging. Cass, his recent ex, was heading off to college and would leave him behind on the island where they grew up. What would make the has-everything popular kid want to take flight lessons? Writing in Cass’s perspective helped me determine that motivation. For example, in The Sky Above Us, I wasn’t sure how to get Shane into the pilot seat. ![]() Usually, stepping away from the character for a while shakes something loose. If I write myself into a corner with one character, I can work on the other for a while. Why juggle all these perspectives? Switching voices keeps me from feeling stuck. As though six perspectives weren’t enough, I also have a few interstitial sections that include emails, police interviews, discussion posts, essays, and journal entries. I also rotate between the close-third person points of view of Nate, Shane, and Israel in the month leading up to stealing the plane and crashing it. In my second novel, The Sky Above Us, I rotate between the first-person perspectives of Izzy, Janie, and Cass as they wake up on a beach after a senior party and witness a plane crash that changes their lives forever. My first novel, We Speak in Storms, rotates between four perspectives-three teenage outsiders who encounter an abandoned car in the wake of a tornado-and a fourth voice, the ghosts of a tornado that struck the town drive-in generations before.
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