[Korman Junkie]

How do you decide whether a book will be first or third person? I notice that nowadays your books are mostly 1st person and cycle through narrators, but books as recently as 2018 are third person.

Hi, KJ,

Good question. I just choose which way I think the story will be told best. First person muti-narrators is a pet method of mine. I feel it tells a better-rounded story when different people opine on the same topic.                                   --GK--

[Darren]

Gord,
I had meant to ask you before if the multiple 1st person narration viewpoint was something you came up with or was it inspired by something you saw?
I haven't read a ton of various authors but I can't recall seeing anyone other than you use that technique.

[Korman Junkie]

Dan Gutman did in The Homework Machine 

Hi, Darren,

Sorry to keep you waiting. I've been busy packing younger son off to Italy for a college semester.

Re: multiple first-person narratives. This is what I remember of the history of it. My first foray into it was in 1996 with THE CHICKEN DOESN'T SKATE. Then I didn't use it again until SCHOOLED in 2007. Just about the same time, I read a book by Tama Janowitz in which she used the technique very effectively. And I decided it rounded out my story exactly the way I like it rounded out, and I've been using it, although not exclusively, ever since.

OK? I really don't know who else uses it. It does restrict the writing too, you know. But I really enjoy the effect.

                                                       Regards,                                                                            -Gord