Two different characters narrate the story

[rexbrookdale]

Hi,

I'm looking for suggestions for stories to recommend to an author for whom I'm editing a story.

It needs to have two different characters narrating parts of the same story: a sort of 'he said'/'she said' dynamic.

Hope this makes sense.

I've looked through my favorites and will do some more searching for something to recommend; but would be grateful for any of your suggestions, too, please?

Cheers.

 

[donaldelliott11]

Gratuitous suggestion: as a reader, I hate this unless they are NOT saying the same thing twice. In other words, I want each change of voice to relate something the other hasn't just described. Don't want 2 versions of one thing.

Also please be careful to make things clear.
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Maybe a graphic signal like I just did with the 3 plus marks.

 

[SunnyU2]

Hi,

I'm looking for suggestions for stories to recommend to an author for whom I'm editing a story.

It needs to have two different characters narrating parts of the same story: a sort of 'he said'/'she said' dynamic.

Hope this makes sense.

I've looked through my favorites and will do some more searching for something to recommend; but would be grateful for any of your suggestions, too, please?

Cheers.

TheTalkman is good at those type of stories.

 

[AlinaX]

My Doll / Mother pair has the same story from two narrative views, and my Internude series switches between PoVs. Also Insatiable an Appetite.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I alternate point of view in this story:

https://www.literotica.com/beta/s/the-floating-world-1

Told using intimate third person narrator, with each shift in perspective clearly shown - as donaldelliot notes, that's important. It was well received.

 

[SimonDoom]

I completely agree with donaldelliot about this. Don't repeat the plot. Have one character pick up where the other leaves off.

Also: think about why you want to do it this way, other than it just being something different. Think about how having two narrators helps advance the story. For instance, maybe part of it is that neither quite understands the other and makes mistakes about the other's intentions. Maybe there's a mystery that it takes both of them to solve. Maybe they begin in conflict or misunderstanding but by the end of the story resolve their conflict, and you want readers to see both sides.

 

[SimonDoom]

I alternate point of view in this story:

https://www.literotica.com/beta/s/the-floating-world-1

Told using intimate third person narrator, with each shift in perspective clearly shown - as donaldelliot notes, that's important. It was well received.

This is my preferred way to tell a story from two different points of view, but it's very different from having two separate narrators.

Anytime someone undertakes this for the first time, I think they should read this very humorous example of a tandem story told alternately by a male and female writer:

http://www.nhne.com/storiesquotes/0010.html