I need to change my novel into the first person. This seems an obvious solution but one I was trying to avoid. I wanted to get inside my heroine's head without her being me. I've managed this before: in my novel V.GOMENZI, I got to understand my hero very well indeed and lived easily inside his head. Or so it would appear. Looking back, I actually couldn't find his "voice" for a year and it took two years to write the novel (it's quite hefty.) Also, the novel switches between characters and I had to get inside the head of several people, all of which was actually quite easy. But this first-person thing must be a stylistic thing. I've just sat down to rewrite the Prologue in the first person and there is my heroine - not only have I found her voice, I can HEAR her. Suddenly my style doesn't seem faux fantasy (something I loathe) but gentle and dreamy, yet filled with very precise clarity. This is quite a stunning transformation.
If only I could solve my financial difficulties so positively.....