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Hi, Ella,

If you’re familiar with my work then you know that I write different perspectives all the time. But I never repeat an event from another person’s viewpoint. The story should carry on. If there is too much repetition, you would lose your reader, I think. The use of language will indicate the different POV subtly, hopefully without bogging down your story.

Re: skipping a few months between chapters. You can skip years if it suits your story. That’s fine, but must be done skilfully, of course. You could also indicate the change in time by a heading giving the current date of the action. That’s the easiest way.

Re: 2 chapters in a row with the same narrator. I have done it, but only because it just had to be that way. I still prefer not to.

OK? Good luck, Ella!                                                                                       —–Gordon Korman—–