you know...I think the switching POV was something that made me vaguely...well, not uneasy...but made me feel like there was something off about that story.
I have always tried sticking to just one point of view when I write. Sometimes, I have not succeeded. It's difficult enough in writing slash sometimes to identify the character's action/speech when you have two (or more - and don't get me starte on that) he's or a couple of she's in the scene.
The biggest exception to this rule was in writing a story with two other lovely ladies. We tended to shift perspective as each of us took a character in the scene to concentrate on...even though the shift was not indicated by anything other than a paragraph break.
I think that POV shifts just have to fit in with the flow of the story. Just like anything, it can be done well, and it will appear seamless...or jerky jumps in POV can drive me out of the rhythm of the story and make me put down the book, or click out of the story.
You always come up with such great topics of conversation, ya know!
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Date: 2006-09-22 06:25 pm (UTC)I have always tried sticking to just one point of view when I write. Sometimes, I have not succeeded. It's difficult enough in writing slash sometimes to identify the character's action/speech when you have two (or more - and don't get me starte on that) he's or a couple of she's in the scene.
The biggest exception to this rule was in writing a story with two other lovely ladies. We tended to shift perspective as each of us took a character in the scene to concentrate on...even though the shift was not indicated by anything other than a paragraph break.
I think that POV shifts just have to fit in with the flow of the story. Just like anything, it can be done well, and it will appear seamless...or jerky jumps in POV can drive me out of the rhythm of the story and make me put down the book, or click out of the story.
You always come up with such great topics of conversation, ya know!
*huggles*