scarves and sequins

I have a problem with point of view. More literally, I have a problem with narrator point of view. It's one of the chief problems in actually getting any of my projects off of the ground. I am violently opposed to first person narration (not the reading of, just the writing of) and every project that I've attempted of any length with first person narration has been dead in the water within a few weeks. I tend to lean towards third person, past tense. A typical storytelling mode.

The biggest problem with Project Revelation is that it desperately wants to be first person narration. I could maybe have relented to this if it was consistent. But it's not. It's really not. I have two main narrating characters. Character A wants to be first person, present tense. Character B wants to be third person, past tense. The two do not go together.

Or do they? Val McDermid used first person diary entries along with third person, past tense narration in one of her novels and it worked for her. But these aren't diary entries, these are actual action scenes.

It doesn't help that Character A is dead.