GPT-5.5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol for book writing

Use **first person**.

The novel’s power is the gap between what the girl reports and what the reader understands. A fourteen-year-old carer will normalise neglect, minimise danger, and protect her mother in the telling. First person lets the reader feel her competence and denial at once: she can say, “Mum was tired,” while we understand alcohol, depression, abandonment, and fear.

**First person**

At four o’clock Mum was still on the settee, one arm hanging down, her fag gone cold between two fingers. I turned the telly lower, in case she nee…

## Recommendation: First person

First person best creates the necessary dramatic irony. The girl can report practical details while normalising or misreading them; the reader accumulates what they mean—alcoholism, neglect, parentification—before she can. Her omissions and euphemisms become part of the novel’s emotional structure. Keep the narration contemporaneous, not an adult looking back.

**First person**

Mum was having one of her afternoon sleeps, still in her coat on top of the candlewick. The clock said four. I shut the bedroom door so…