It's tricky because in the style I like to write in, the narrative is also in the character's voice. If something is objectively wrong in terms of SPAG then I don't want to use it. But if it's a style thing, I think it should be in the character's voice. Bloody complicated writing.
Certainly. I almost edited the post to add that in a first-person the narrator's voice should be that of the MC.
In ADBATK, the MC is the narrator, but older and I've done my best to keep the same voice, same vocabulary, but matured. Brain stretch, that.
You know I've never considered writing in first-person, where the adult narrator is telling the story of his childhood. In my head, the narrator's story always took place recently - or even 'now', even though I write in past tense. Charles Bukowski does it in Ham on Rye and I'm sure there's countless others - just never occurred to me. I may sometimes have my narrator talk of a childhood memory, but they're only ever brief.
