/lit/ - Literature

thinking of changing narration in my novel from first person to free indirect. i haven't made it very far, so the changes wouldn't be dramatic. i'm essentially trading a bit of immediacy for a load of freedom to develop and embellish, while still remaining stink breath-close. my main cope here is that if i can switch it up with such ease, perhaps my choice of first person wasn't that well thought out or even necessary to begin with, and the narrator (a sheltered, slow-witted neet) was increasingly clashing with my writing voice anyway. i really want to avoid the tone/style of similar-ish fare like convenience store woman, and this is my chance to escape

my only real losses at this stage will be the opening line (perhaps still salvageable), and the intimacy of calling characters "my mother" etc. i guess i also liked the idea of the finished work being something written and left behind "by" the narrator, but again it just doesn't gel with the overall character

we'll see if the patient lives