: Re: Help! How do I transition from a character voice to a narrator? How do you successfully transition from a first-person narrator, who is present only for the first few chapters of a book, to

Plenty of books just switch narrators, no real transition, but I'm not a fan of that approach. A more elegant solution, if it fits your plot, is to have the boy narrate his section to your primary narrator. In other words you start with a brief intro featuring your narrator, explain how he meets the boy, offer a pretext for the boy telling the narrator his story, and then continue with the main narrator after the interruption.

If your primary narration is 3rd Person Omniscient, and not tied to a character in the story, you can still present the first few chapters as being recounted by the boy to an actual character. In this case, I would still recommend starting the book with at least a brief intro in the actual narrative voice. That will prepare the readers for the impending loss of the boy-as-narrator, and keep them from being thrown off by it when it happens.

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