Hi folks
New to the boards and posting my first question. I've started a short story where I think changing the viewpoint of the story from one character to another would be appropriate. How would you suggest I format this? One suggestion I had was having a few asterisks between the paragraphs with the different viewpoints.
Has anyone else done this with their own work?
Thanks
In "Sexing the Cherry" Jeanette Winterson uses symbols at the beginning of each chapter(if I remember correctly - it's years and years since I read it). In the "Chaos Walking" trilogy Patrick Ness uses a different chapter and different font for each first person narrative voice. If you plan to flit back and forth between characters within chapters it'd be more difficult I'm afraid...sorry. Hope you find a way.
There's some great trickery going on by the Emily Bronte in 'Wuthering Heights'. It's a really good book to read for some unusual narrative voices. Here's a link to an essay my friend Penelope wrote a while ago. I hope this helps.
http://www.consideredcapricious.com/emily_bronte_wuthering_heights.html
Within a short story, I think asterisks work best. Alternatively, if you're being experimental and your potential publisher allows it, you could use different fonts for different characters.