Nov
26
A couple of weeks ago, Ms. D looked at me thoughtfully and asked me about perspective and it threw me for a loop. "Are you sure?" she asked. "Because it could be you, with your spin on it."
When we first started we had informally settled upon this project being written in the first person, that is, from her perspective (even though I was the person writing it). i.e. "I like pizza and long bike rides" as opposed to it being written in third person "She likes pizza and long bike rides."
Okay, pizza and bike rides are a lousy example, but you know what I'm getting at - whose perspective would be more compelling? Mine as an observer, or hers, coming from inside her own head?
I had already settled upon writing it from her point of view and her question made me less sure of myself at first.
It will take a lot more work, but think it should be her words, her voice. For some reason I have it in my head that this could be a kind of diarized (is that even a word?) kind of memoir. And a diary can only be written by the person whose emotions and life is invested in it.
