Gang,
Kicking around a story in my head. I want this to be told in first person point of view. Now, I know I can change that prospective at scene changes. But that's not exactly what I want to do.
I know in first person POV, I can't see or hear what is happening someplace I'm not.
So, let's say the narrator is sitting at a bar and taking to the bartender, ten years ago. How does the narrator explain the conversation later on to a girl friend he just met? Would it be nothing more than 'I said this and she said that?' How would you show the dialogue between two people if one of them is dead/gone/whatever when telling a story in first person POV?
Got everyone confused? I am.
I read Stephen King's "The Green Mile" and the narrator is telling the story to his girlfriend in the present, but the action and dialogue (even dialogue that he wasn't able to hear) is in the past. The narrator pulls in and out of the story by drifting into the present. Typical King stuff.
I'm up for suggestions...
Kicking around a story in my head. I want this to be told in first person point of view. Now, I know I can change that prospective at scene changes. But that's not exactly what I want to do.
I know in first person POV, I can't see or hear what is happening someplace I'm not.
So, let's say the narrator is sitting at a bar and taking to the bartender, ten years ago. How does the narrator explain the conversation later on to a girl friend he just met? Would it be nothing more than 'I said this and she said that?' How would you show the dialogue between two people if one of them is dead/gone/whatever when telling a story in first person POV?
Got everyone confused? I am.
I read Stephen King's "The Green Mile" and the narrator is telling the story to his girlfriend in the present, but the action and dialogue (even dialogue that he wasn't able to hear) is in the past. The narrator pulls in and out of the story by drifting into the present. Typical King stuff.
I'm up for suggestions...