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Post by beckyminor on Nov 14, 2009 12:30:21 GMT -5
Darn editors. The main reason I ask is due to some of what I read in Orson Scott Card's Characters and Viewpoint. He seemed to recommend varying the depth of your 3rd person POV, saying that basically staying firmly submerged in the POV characters intimate thoughts for an entire novel can get exhausting for the reader, and doesn't always serve every scene in the best way. While I totally understand that a writer doesn't want to hop into a dozen people's heads at random, telling what every person in a scene thinks, feels, wonders and fears, I just wonder now about the practical application of POV depth on a singlePOV character. (Which I thought I understood, but now I'm questioning myself.)
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Post by tris on Nov 17, 2009 9:18:54 GMT -5
A dim bulb is beginning to brighten. Seems it's not so much POV as it is when to use a strictly third person POV and when you can sprinkle a little omniscient in like salt.
I agree with Jeff, just because it's on the bestseller list doesn't mean it's quality. But from a writer's standpoint it makes it extremely difficult to ascertain what the publisher is looking for when it crops up there. So...back to the drawing board.
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