Letharg
Troubadour
I am in the planning stages of a novel, which will follow two youths as they apply for a job after they finish school. The youths are friends and are hired by the same company as factory workers on an old factory. As they begin working they get into trouble with the regular staff, old people who have worked there forever and soon strange things (read supernatural) start happening.
The reader will follow these two friends over the first 1/3-1/2 of the book up until the point where they encounter something that makes them disappear during a night shift. The reader will see something happening to them but not know exactly what.
This is where I would shift perspective entirely to a young detective at a local police station. The last 1/2 -2/3 of the book will consist of his investigation of the factory and his eventual discovery at what exactly is going on inside the walls at night and possibly rescue of the boys.
Now to the real question. Would you be jarred by the sudden shift in perspective? Would I need to begin introducing the detective during the first arc or would you be comfortable of having the first mention of him after the friends disappear? Maybe they could contact him in some way before they disappear to report the strange things they have seen and he dismisses them.
The shift in perspective would also force me to deal with the characters aversion to the supernatural twice. First the youths will deny and try to ignore the unnatural events and ignore them, blaming it on superstition and then the detective will have to go through the same journey until actually accepting that the supernatural exists. Would you find that jarring to go through two such struggles of belief?
I am still in the early planning stages of this story so any input will be valued.
The reader will follow these two friends over the first 1/3-1/2 of the book up until the point where they encounter something that makes them disappear during a night shift. The reader will see something happening to them but not know exactly what.
This is where I would shift perspective entirely to a young detective at a local police station. The last 1/2 -2/3 of the book will consist of his investigation of the factory and his eventual discovery at what exactly is going on inside the walls at night and possibly rescue of the boys.
Now to the real question. Would you be jarred by the sudden shift in perspective? Would I need to begin introducing the detective during the first arc or would you be comfortable of having the first mention of him after the friends disappear? Maybe they could contact him in some way before they disappear to report the strange things they have seen and he dismisses them.
The shift in perspective would also force me to deal with the characters aversion to the supernatural twice. First the youths will deny and try to ignore the unnatural events and ignore them, blaming it on superstition and then the detective will have to go through the same journey until actually accepting that the supernatural exists. Would you find that jarring to go through two such struggles of belief?
I am still in the early planning stages of this story so any input will be valued.