Sally Green
Hi there - good to see you here on goodreads.
This is a tricky question as I don't like to say too much about the characters and I think it's up to each individual reader to decided what Arran, Deborah and Gran might have been feeling. There's definitely a whole separate story that could be told about that, but it's not one I'm going to tell in the HALF BAD trilogy (which is Nathan's story).
The difficult thing about writing from a first person point of view (and trying to keep it realistic/believable) is that I can't tell much of the story that Nathan himself doesn't experience. I can explain about other things going on in his world, for example about the Council of White Witches, through what other people tell him. But it can become a v clumsy (and dull) way of telling the story - sort of 'Oh, did you hear that the Council have done this…'.
The thing I love about first person though is that Nathan doesn't know the full picture: he (and the reader) has to imagine/make assumptions about what else might be going on. This hopefully keeps the reader engaged and also leads to some surprises when Nathan does discover things.
SPOILER: Having said all that about the problems of relating what other people felt/did when Nathan was taken prisoner, in HALF WILD there is quite a bit about what Annalise did at that time (and I hope I manage to tell it neatly/smoothly/convincingly).
Arran and Deborah do feature in HALF WILD but they are minor characters in the action. The truth is that Nathan has moved on and he can never go back to his old life with them. He will always love his family but he's different to them and becoming more different every day...
This is a tricky question as I don't like to say too much about the characters and I think it's up to each individual reader to decided what Arran, Deborah and Gran might have been feeling. There's definitely a whole separate story that could be told about that, but it's not one I'm going to tell in the HALF BAD trilogy (which is Nathan's story).
The difficult thing about writing from a first person point of view (and trying to keep it realistic/believable) is that I can't tell much of the story that Nathan himself doesn't experience. I can explain about other things going on in his world, for example about the Council of White Witches, through what other people tell him. But it can become a v clumsy (and dull) way of telling the story - sort of 'Oh, did you hear that the Council have done this…'.
The thing I love about first person though is that Nathan doesn't know the full picture: he (and the reader) has to imagine/make assumptions about what else might be going on. This hopefully keeps the reader engaged and also leads to some surprises when Nathan does discover things.
SPOILER: Having said all that about the problems of relating what other people felt/did when Nathan was taken prisoner, in HALF WILD there is quite a bit about what Annalise did at that time (and I hope I manage to tell it neatly/smoothly/convincingly).
Arran and Deborah do feature in HALF WILD but they are minor characters in the action. The truth is that Nathan has moved on and he can never go back to his old life with them. He will always love his family but he's different to them and becoming more different every day...
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