: Re: How to switch between characters in a first person story? I know you can switch between the 3rd and 1st and vice versa but how from one character to another both using the 1st person. I

This is a common technique, but one that I --speaking as a reader --personally hate. Multiple first person is very tricky to pull off well, because you need to maintain two distinct voices, and because switching viewpoints tends to endanger the reader's immersion and suspension of disbelief.
As @The -Huntress mentioned in the comments, switching to 3rd person POV would be the easiest way to resolve this. Another way would be to have one character relate their experiences out loud to the other one.
If you are going to just hop from head to head, there will be readers who are not bothered by that at all, but I am not one of them.

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: If you're a writer, you're probably aware that there are generally two ways you can create a hero/villain conflict: Active Hero, Passive Villain: The hero is trying to get X, and the villain

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: The pacing was unearthly slow When people disparage stories as "too slow" what that often translates as is a lack of engaging content - the stuff that makes you feel that the story

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: Is it a good idea to pause a plot while doing a few one-offs and then going back? This is for my webcomic, and I'm trying my best to keep it about writing, sorry if it's off-topic or something.

: Re: How to switch between characters in a first person story? I know you can switch between the 3rd and 1st and vice versa but how from one character to another both using the 1st person. I

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: So you've got a solo Zeus girl living in a New York orphanage, but you don't have a solo Zeus girl enemy. That can make for a rather dull story, so I'll try to help you out. The easiest

: If you're a writer, you're probably aware that there are generally two ways you can create a hero/villain conflict: Active Hero, Passive Villain: The hero is trying to get X, and the villain

: The pacing was unearthly slow When people disparage stories as "too slow" what that often translates as is a lack of engaging content - the stuff that makes you feel that the story

: Is it a good idea to pause a plot while doing a few one-offs and then going back? This is for my webcomic, and I'm trying my best to keep it about writing, sorry if it's off-topic or something.

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