POV multiplication is weird. I think POV generally is one of those things where most of the ways of thinking about it come from literary criticism and therefore picking it up from the wrong end for writing. I hope you are soon happy with the way yours is working for you and for the story. POV overlaps a whole lot with a lot of mode stuff about where you're standing to tell the story and what assumptions you can make. I hope you have a lot of fun with it.
I'm finding omniscient really strange -- what's called omniscient is actually about six different things. I have a new theory about it, which is that there was an omniscient narrator voice, as used by Austen and Trollope, and Dickens picked it up, dropped and broke it, making his form of omniscient which developed into the detested Bestseller Omniscient as seen today.
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Date: 2002-12-07 03:33 pm (UTC)200 words a day steadily soon adds up.
POV multiplication is weird. I think POV generally is one of those things where most of the ways of thinking about it come from literary criticism and therefore picking it up from the wrong end for writing. I hope you are soon happy with the way yours is working for you and for the story. POV overlaps a whole lot with a lot of mode stuff about where you're standing to tell the story and what assumptions you can make. I hope you have a lot of fun with it.
I'm finding omniscient really strange -- what's called omniscient is actually about six different things. I have a new theory about it, which is that there was an omniscient narrator voice, as used by Austen and Trollope, and Dickens picked it up, dropped and broke it, making his form of omniscient which developed into the detested Bestseller Omniscient as seen today.