The second voice

I finished editing the first half of my WIP and have returned to writing it - in theory. I went across the snippet of draft and fixed some issues (most notably erasing an unnecessary character and setting up another as an even bigger jerk). I had a breather and relaxed a bit but now I'm stuck. You see, I've decided to begin this section of the story using a different character's perspective...

It's hard. In reality, I've never done something like this before. I mean, I've dabbled with alternate perspectives but that was on a chapter-by-chapter basis. This is completely different to anything I've ever done. Injecting a new voice halfway through the story? Talk about risky.

I know it's a risk. It might not even work out. It will make things difficult for me. But I'm not afraid of the challenge, because I know just how important it will be for this particular story. I just somehow have to get started on it.

I've already got the main foundations for what I want to do. I know the characters well and know what will happen. In theory (there's that phrase again) I'm ready for what must be done. And yet I'm still hesitating. I've spent so long in the head of my first MC that it's proving difficult to get out of it. Last week I had a dream that involved the first MC forcing me to run laps in a parallel universe. Then she confessed she wasn't sure if she really existed. I'm not sure if that's a comment on my writing or what, but a couple of nights ago I dreamt I was the second MC. Now, I'm not sure if that was any better than the first dream because I had to watch the first MC die, but whatever.

Thinking about it now, the dream was probably my brain telling me that I can be in the second MC's head if I just lose my connection with the first. Or let her die, metaphorically. Or something. Man, this is starting to feel like my old Psychology class. You know, that one lesson we did on dream interpretations. My head hurts now with all this psychoanalysing of myself. I think I'll just force myself to get writing and stop trying to figure out how I'll do it.