- Choose your voice for the story and be consistent. I think most authors will tell you to avoid present tense, so past tense is the most common method. Third person narrative is the most common, but books are also written in first person, Twilight by Stepanie Meyers is a good example, and second person, Halting State by Charles Stross is a good example of this form, but is fairly rare. There also variations on how to use the third person in the form of omniscient, objective(primarily used for news reporting) and limited, which can lend itself to a narrator that is unreliable. Unreliable just means you only see what the character sees and feel what the character feels, whether it’s a true representation of reality or not. Third person works very well if you are changing the narrator. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_mode
