Diary of Being a Writer; Week 93

I am writing in the first person now, so Nah!

I posed a question to my mentor Sophie Hannah on Saturday about writing in the first person. I don’t know if I mentioned this, but I keep slipping into it, and the more I write, and the more I get into the world, the more natural it seems.
Sophie replied that she loves writing in the first person, and it is her first choice. She warned me to look out for problems that may come about because you want to include things that your first-person narrator is unaware of. If there are, workshop some solutions.
This of you who have read my previous diary entries will remember that this is not the first time I have grappled with the first or third person thing. One publisher, one time, said to me “Oh if it is the first person I just won’t read it”. And ever since then I have been terrified of how bad my novel will be if I write it in first. And to be fair I think with the witch one that perhaps would have run into even more trouble than it did if I had tried to write in first. Or maybe it would be better, and I wouldn’t have abandoned it at 40,000 words.
With this one, first feels right. I am a few chapters in, and so far, there has been nothing that the protagonist is unaware of that I have wanted to include. However, it makes sense that first-person feels more natural as it is what I have written every comedy routine…