Considering a POV change.

[seaside]

I'm about 150 pages into my book, and so far it's all been from a single character's POV. I'll pull back occasionally, but for the most part we experience the world through her eyes. Part of it was a personal challenge, and part of it was for the unique view of the world a nonhuman can bring.

But as I go along it's beginning to feel stale always from the same character. It seems the more involved the story gets and the more characters I get to know, the more I'm craving to get into others' heads. I'm wondering if my own frustrations of being trapped within a single character will also be felt by the reader. Sometimes I feel like a scene will have more interest by switching, and other times there are places in the world that are off limits (she can't fit through doors) to her, and thus the reader.

Since I've come this far from a single POV and it's worked just fine, I feel it'd not only be jarring, but also a cop out on my part to jump to another character. I get dizzy when other authors jump around.

Maybe I should write a side scene that won't actually be in the story from other viewpoints to get the urge out of my system. I don't know. I've been stuck about two weeks now because I can't think of the best way to proceed, even though I know what's happening next. Any good solutions here?

 

[Boneman]

I'm assuming you mean close 3rd person pov? If it's the alien's story, then you have to stick with it, if you've come this far, I fear. Or, go back and put in chapters from another's pov... But if it's worked well, thus far, are you tinkering because it won't work, or tinkering because you feel it won't work? Probably best to get someone else to read it - we're often so hypercritical with our own work, we can't see the pov for the trees.

 

[HareBrain]

Bear in mind that just because you think a reader might want something, it doesn't mean the story will necessarily be better, or the reader end up happier, if you give it to them.

Having said that, I don't think it would inevitably be a problem to switch after 150 pages, as long as you're doing it for a strong narrative reason. It would probably be jarring to an extent, but if the new viewpoint is one the reader is desperate to get into because they've already been intrigued by the character and what he or she might know, they will soon forgive you.