The living I – Writing and worldbuilding in the first person

[image error]I'm reading right now, and will probably review when I'm finished, God of War, an enormous and fantastic historical about Alexander the Great; It's a superb read in a ton of ways, but one of the real pleasures is the viewpoint. It's told, aside from the opening chapter, in first person by – inevitably – Ptolemy, just like the film (about which the less said, the better). And it's a superbly handled first person, immersive and authentic and full of snappy asides to his listener, and Ptolemy's ...