What advantages and comfort levels does the first person narrative afford you versus the standard 3rd person omniscient?
RH: To me, writing in the first person seems the most natural way to tell a story. It’s easy to find the character’s voice, and by bringing the reader into the protagonist’s mind, you automatically bring the reader deep into the story. I like the intimacy of telling a story in the first person, because the reader will know things that the protagonist would not otherwise verbalize at all. The disadvantage is obvious. The reader can only know exactly as much as the protagonist knows. And sometimes that means that I, as a writer, have to rely on the reader to be alert and connect the dots, so to speak. In that way, the reader will perhaps be able to see what is coming even if the main character doesn’t. Or the protagonist may interpret a situation one way while the reader has a different view on it. SFFW: Keeping this in mind, your first person novels have been told from the point of view of a male. Have any women first person narrators ever knocked on your inner door, begging you to tell
