A fascinating insight into authors first date jitters but hold the futtock on!!! You changed the identity of the killer in the final throws of A divine fury. I have had to put down Andrew Taylor and am now frantically scanning back through A divine fury to work out who it was. I’m not sure if this is genius or sadism? It’s like two Aldo’s for the price of one but on the other hand I’ll never know if I’m right or not.
Still love your books Mr Bishop. Get on and write some more Aldo please.
Thanks for the kind words. If memory serves, I change the killer's identity in City of Vengeance as well, but choose to do so halfway through my first draft so was better able to incorporate the switch into the text as it unfolded...
I think the Jack Reacher novels had some novels in single first person POV whereas most were third person. I do like the first person POV in detective stories as it puts you in the spot of the detective and you only learn stuff when they do.
If we're leaving as the POV character does, it tends to be mystery. If the readers know more than the POV character, that can generate more suspense and/or dramatic iriony.
First sentence placeholder….(runs off to write “It is a truth universally acknowledged…” at the beginning of the WIP)
Whatever works!
By July! Yikes indeed... I wish I could write so fast. Good luck, Margaret
We shall see if I pull it off!
I like the first sentence placeholder. I tend to write a first sentence that will 'do' and come back to fuss with it later.
I'm all about the fussing until I can't be bothered anymore!
A fascinating insight into authors first date jitters but hold the futtock on!!! You changed the identity of the killer in the final throws of A divine fury. I have had to put down Andrew Taylor and am now frantically scanning back through A divine fury to work out who it was. I’m not sure if this is genius or sadism? It’s like two Aldo’s for the price of one but on the other hand I’ll never know if I’m right or not.
Still love your books Mr Bishop. Get on and write some more Aldo please.
Thanks for the kind words. If memory serves, I change the killer's identity in City of Vengeance as well, but choose to do so halfway through my first draft so was better able to incorporate the switch into the text as it unfolded...
I think the Jack Reacher novels had some novels in single first person POV whereas most were third person. I do like the first person POV in detective stories as it puts you in the spot of the detective and you only learn stuff when they do.
If we're leaving as the POV character does, it tends to be mystery. If the readers know more than the POV character, that can generate more suspense and/or dramatic iriony.