Changed my mind

I thought I had decided on my format for the rest of the book.

But after rereading what I've written so far for the boy's part and getting copious amounts of constructive criticism & advice from Seppo (all solicited and welcomed), I think that I am going to have to change the structure of the book.

I just can't do a reasonable first person of the boy. No matter how I try to talk in a believeable gender-neutral way, which I think I can do for my third person narrator voice, it is really hard for me to capture the feel of what it was like to be young, to fall in love, to grapple with issues of growing up and struggling family life, in the voice of a boy.

I find it especially difficult to reasonably portray a boy that is crushing AND lusting after a girl at the age of fifteen/sixteen. It always sounds like me as a girl, instead.