Writing Perspective

One of the hardest things for me to master as a writer is the voice in which the work is written. I wrote my first fabulously unpublishable piles of detritus in third person, which seemed to be the default for everything I’d read up until then.

Antigone’s Fall was written from the first person perspective. It was a thriller trying to be a mystery, so the intimate immediacy of first person appealed to me. I offered me a way to expound on my character’s thoughts and processes without having to m...