I’m toying with a new idea for ‘Whispers’.  Currently the story is told from four main POVs, with a few sections told from a minor character’s POV.

It’s a challenging style to pull off successfully. George R. R. Martin does, Robert Jordan did, Steven King does, just to name a few.

But think of it. Each character has to be compelling and interesting enough to draw the reader into their story.  If one character is more sympathetic to readers than another, readers will be tempted to skip all chapters from another POV and just read their ‘favorite’ character’s sections.  Not what we want.

I’ve been playing ‘what if’ with my novel.  What if I concentrate on one main character per book, adding to what I already have written in their POV, fleshing them and the story out more. I would need some chapters or scenes from other minor characters’ POV, to keep the story moving but overall it would focus on one person.  Book One - Kalea.  Book Two - Jala.  Book Three - Lacent.

The beauty of it all is that they would all be included in the other’s stories, but it wouldn’t be told from their POV. It would be their combined story according to Kalea for the first book, etc.

It would be easy to do. I have the whole story written, for all practical purposes and I could use that as a very big outline for my actual novels.

Like I said, it’s an idea.