Voice

[Tony Bacigalupo]

I'm thinking about how I might frame the writing, and I decided I'd
like to start telling the Jelly story with my own personal first
experience.

So my question is about the author's voice-- would it be possible
somehow to introduce that piece with something like, "the following is
Tony Bacigalupo's account of his first experience with Jelly", so I
could then use the first person?

I assume I would use the standard third person voice for the rest, but
I don't know.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!
Tony

[and...@aquiferdesign.com]

Hey-

 

I think that first person is appropriate here. It is your experience so go ahead and tell it. I think it more authentic this way.  Any thoughts Todd?

Cheers,

Drew

[felicity at cubes]

I like 1st person...but need to work on your intro. to te section. I
would write the experience in the first person first and then worry
about the transitions (those are easier) and the 1st person connects
better with the audience. (can you tell I once taught high school
English...)

-Felicity at cubes

[Andrew Jones]

I agree felicity. There is an authenticity to speaking in the first
person that is irreplaceable... Moving back and forth can be tricky.
Thoughts?

On Mar 29, 10:11 am, felicity at cubes <felicity.chap...@gmail.com>
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> > I'm thinking about how I might frame the writing, and I decided I'd like to start telling the Jelly story with my own personal first experience. So my question is about the author's voice-- would it be possible somehow to introduce that piece with something like, "the following is Tony Bacigalupo's account of his first experience with Jelly", so I could then use the first person? I assume I would use the standard third person voice for the rest, but I don't know. Any thoughts? Thanks! Tony- Hide quoted text -
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[Tony Bacigalupo]

Right on, guys. Thanks for your input. I don't think it will be any issue once I'm cranking it out, but I figured it would be good to have some continuity for this kind of stuff in a multi-author book.

Any other stylistic things that should be kept in mind?

T

[Todd Sundsted]

[[hmmm... apparently reply-via-e-mail doesn't post like I expected...
trying again...]]

Good question..! My writing priorities are 1) to connect to the
reader 2) speak naturally. With that said...

This gets technical, but one style I like a lot is a first person
narrative that introduces other people and their stories as stories
within the narrative (in third-person).

In 2006, I was hanging out in coffeeshops and paying for community by
the cup. I heard about Jelly from... blah blah <<this is your story>>
blah blah

The first person I met was Amit. At the time, Amit was working
for... Amit started Jelly... He wanted... <<this is Amit's story
inside Tony's story>> blah blah

About a year later, I was... <<back to your story>> blah blah

Tony, this sounds like what you were proposing. Go for it!

Todd