Do you think it is ok to switch in a series from 1th person POV to 3th one, between books?

For more clarity: The first book in my series is in 1th person POV (of Mia). Now the second part/book I want to write from Daria‘s POV, but because of her personality now I struggle with this style. 3th person could be a better fit here.. But I don’t like to be so inconsistent.

Arr. I don’t know. Help

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#WritersCoffeeClub 28 Mar: Happy Respect Your Cat Day! Who or what accompanies you when you write?

We haven't had cats for many years. Sometimes I do miss having a furry companion, yet it's also nice not to have the responsibility and the worry, for example when they're not well.

Instead I have a couple of desk companions, Owl and Bee. They just quietly keep me company and they know not to disturb me.

#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 28 - Happy Respect Your Cat Day! Who or what accompanies you when you write?

This is T.T. the house rabbit. A rescued bunny who has been trained to use a litter tray, so he's as free roaming as any indoors cat.

Very sociable but will savagely remove the broad-leaf parsley from your hand like a kung-fu master.

#WritersCoffeeClub 28Mar—Happy Respect Your Cat Day! Who or what accompanies you when you write?

These two beauties usually aren't far away.

Kona (the older one, crouched) prefers to chill, although she also likes to watch the screen while I type. Jazzy (the younger one, sitting up) loves to play. She'll bring her little spring toy to my feet and wait for me to throw it.

Both eventually settle into the respective chairs and nap. That's when I'm most productive.

#WritersCoffeeClub 28
Happy Respect Your Cat Day! Who or what accompanies you when you write?

Mr. Poe (munchkin black long-hair) is something of an introvert, and therefore sits quietly on the chair near me while I'm writing. Bellatrix (petite silver short-hair) is more outgoing, and will happily climb over the laptop to ensure I am paying attention to her. They are both powerful muses.

#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 28
Happy Respect Your Cat Day! Who or what accompanies you when you write?

Loving all these kitty photos today I've not had a cat in years, beyond the strays that hang out on my outdoor furniture sometimes and drink from the birdbath. There's a dog, but she only keeps me company when my husband's not home. I'm the lesser status alternate. I suppose my only company would be the gremlins in my head, clamoring for attention.

#WritersCoffeeClub Mar28. Happy Respect Your Cat Day! Who or what accompanies you when you write?

Having just lost my long-time companion Annie-the-Cat to illness a week ago, this is a painful question to answer. Right now I have no one. That will change eventually.

#writersCoffeeClub 3/28: Happy Respect Your Cat Day! (Isn't that every day?) Who or what accompanies you when you write?

This is my PA, André. He is generally within three feet if I'm up and writing in the morning. Sometimes he tries to pull my hair out from his vantage point on the back of the sofa. Sometimes he just watches my inability to write decent sentences with mild disdain. I hired him to do social media stuff but he hasn't got any thumbs and also refuses to use a phone.

#WritersCoffeeClub 28. Happy Respect Your Cat Day! Who or what accompanies you when you write?

My imagination. And about six billion browser tabs open to obscure wikipedia topics (and a few more abstruse sources).

The cat? She mostly observes from a distance between naps, but occasionally gets bored and comes over to bite my typing hands.

#WritersCoffeeClub 27 March: What's the strangest situation or place where you've written.

At a height of about four metres on a tree. At night. In the rain. If dictating an entire chapter into a recorder counts as writing. I then transcribed it at home.

A person walked past with a dog and greeted me. I returned the greeting, whereupon the man reassured his nervous dog: ‘It's all right, it's just a talking tree.’

#WritersCoffeeClub 3/27 What's the strangest situation or place where you've written?

I used to have to figure out how to write while my daughter contact napped.
This included (but was not limited to) writing one-handed, laying in bed, in the dark. I have glow-in-the-dark stickers on my keyboard. I've used a one-handed tap device. And of course drafted on my phone and a tablet.

Not especially odd, but not usual or preferred.
I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore.

Ok #bookstodon I'm looking for some niche reading recs here: Can you suggest a #horror or #thriller novel that is also #historicalfiction?

Preferably #queer too, but not required.

ldeally set in a time period medieval or earlier, though open to others.

They say you have to read what you want to write, but what I want to write is hard to find!

Feel free to boost, thanks.

#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 27
What's the strangest situation or place where you've written?

Only thing that comes to mind is the time I pulled off the road to jot down some things clamoring in my head and some poor guy showed up offering to help with my car problem.

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#WritersCoffeeClub 27 Mar
What's the strangest situation or place you've ever written?

Oh come ON!

(I write SF/F, and the weirder the situation and places the better.)

#WritersCoffeeClub 26: About which format or style choices are you the most uncertain?

I use italics, without quotation marks, to designate telepathic interactions. When I treat it like speech, interspersing it with actions, it might be confusing to a reader. But I think of it as no more difficult to follow that a non-psionic encountering telepathy for the first time.

I also place // marks inside quotation marks to indicate a native or primary language being translated by the book for clarity for the reader. Words that don't translate are described by the sound of them, with words that cannot be translated, such as the native languages of the Gulo or the Kitsune (untranslatable for different reasons), being described as noises being made, rather than sounds.

#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 26
About which format or style choices are you the most uncertain?

This would be how to present my current WIP which has bloomed into my Silmarillion, covering all 3 time lines. I'm still unsure if how I have things setup is the way to go. It currently has sections by year, with subsections with dates, like from a log entry, rather than chapters. It's also LONG. This will be one I will spring for a developmental on when the time comes, as I trust my editor's opinion.

#WritersCoffeeClub 26, About which format or style choices are you the most uncertain?

Second person future pluperfect tense made my headmeat bleed a little (there are a couple of paragraphs in that mode in "Palimpsest").

You will have had to try it before you will have understood why.

#WritersCoffeeClub 26, About which format or style choices are you the most uncertain?

Some folks really hate present tense writing, which can make me insecure. I've tried past tense, it doesn't work for me. It creates more distance and offers less emersion, and I consciously chose present tense, but some people are downright rude about it. This always makes me think I must be missing something. As if I lack some obvious insight and thus can't see the problem.