to tell the truth, it just happened. I have always liked 3rd person better than first. The Winter Prince was such a weird thing to start out with! But The Sunbird was written in a 9 week period of intense white creative heat and that's just the way it came out. Technically it's 3rd person limited--you only see things through Telemakos's eyes. It's not even an omniscient narrator. And the subsequent books are even more carefully limited.
I have a notion that Coalition is in fact told by Goewin out loud to Telemakos while he's recuperating in the early chapters of The Lion Hunter; there is a little (and purposeful) lapse on her part as narrator where she addresses him directly, to give you a clue. It's in the scene in the chapter "The Tomb of the False Door."
But why the Telemakos books are 3rd person? It just feels right. Curiously, I noticed recently that it's the same narrator as the prologue of The Winter Prince.
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Date: 2007-06-26 11:16 pm (UTC)I have a notion that Coalition is in fact told by Goewin out loud to Telemakos while he's recuperating in the early chapters of The Lion Hunter; there is a little (and purposeful) lapse on her part as narrator where she addresses him directly, to give you a clue. It's in the scene in the chapter "The Tomb of the False Door."
But why the Telemakos books are 3rd person? It just feels right. Curiously, I noticed recently that it's the same narrator as the prologue of The Winter Prince.