Meredith Mansfield, Author

Moving forward–slowly–on Become: To Ride the Storm.

Building momentum on coming back to this story is part of why it’s slow. Most of it is getting back into character voice.

Now, I write most comfortably in close limited third person, not first person. Still, that means that I spend a fair amount of time inside each character’s thoughts. And different characters shouldn’t all think alike–or in the same words. Some of that is driven by their personalities, some of it by their experiences and training, some by what it is they (think) they want at that moment.

It almost always slows me down a little when I switch POV characters–which I do a lot in this book. And, perhaps, even a little slower this time because I haven’t been writing these characters for a month or so. This time, finding my way back into Rose’s head was slower than usual.

Of course, part of that might be because Rose is a naïve sixteen-year-old and the chapter before was from the POV of a fifty-ish king.

Getting started is always the hardest part and I’m past that, so things should move better, now. Hopefully.