Odd writing choices

[designatedvictim]

Does it work for you when its a flashback? I did some flashbacks in a novel-length piece that were 3rd-person limited to show how a non-POV character got to where she was and why. But I made it clear via section/chapter titles that it was an interlude and a flashback.

That was pretty much the issue I had (have) with my main series.

I ran up to a point in a first-person POV story where the other main character was recounting an event.

I wound up doing a 'flashback' during which the second character briefly becomes the first-person POV.

Both the change in viewpoint and the details of the scene involved kinda broke me.

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Just finished a story, or moved it to pending, rather. I got to the last scene and had to read the entire thing to realize I’d gone just that. One of the minor characters needed to call the MC by name and she didn’t have one.

It’s an odd feeling…

Just did a similar thing with a story that I, too, just moved to pending. First-person character didn't have a name until near the end, when the dialogue really begged for the partner to use it, so I invented it on the spot. It was so close to the end that my editor even missed it, pointing out that I referred to the character by name in the author's note at the end, but not the story itself. Either way, he was right, and I had to go back and add it into the first couple of lines of dialogue so that it wouldn't be jarring later.