Narration: The Great POV Concern

Once I knew what I wanted to say, I had to decide how to say it. At the time I was on my third readthrough of James Morrow's The Last Witchfinder and had fallen in lust for his ability to weave the Principia's narrative with the main story. I thought, perhaps, I could do something similar. But my "book" became a problematic perspective.

The fundamental difference between Morrow's narrative choice and what I had planned was that my book, the Untitled Work or U.W., was torn to pieces and could not provide a stable, singular viewpoint. This difference, however, is what inspired my next idea. Recalling a writing topic from my Overview of Literature class, I thought about morphing the book's perception of self as different people interpret it. Much as the yellow tome carted around in Dorian Gray is not inherently evil but becomes a symbolic presence of evil once deemed so by the observer, U.W.'s percieved personality would morph to fit the interpretations imposed upon it by the readers.

Now that this had been decided, I needed to create readers for the U.W.. Since I also wanted to weave a third party perspective to the overall story, I would have to create a world for the U.W. to exist in and to people it with a myriad of personalities. That's where next week's posts come in.