Multiple POVs in a fic are fine, though, when demarked by a new scene. I think of it as another issue than the one above.
Yeah, I accidentally combined the two. If I can tell an author's doing it on purpose, okay. When it just seems that they're going back and forth, paragraph to paragraph, I think they're being lazy.
I think multiple POVs are an old-fashioned thing - I'm reading an E.M. Forster story where he does it constantly, even within a paragraph. Can't say I like it much, but he's dead, so I can't make him toe the line, either.
Good point! I've shamefully not read any Forster, though I need to. I wonder if the changing POVs would make me crazy, though. One of the disturbing downsides of having become a writer myself is that only rarely now can I be sucked into a story like I used to; I find myself admiring or damning the prose style and adjective/adverb use as though I'm an editor. :sigh:
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Multiple POVs in a fic are fine, though, when demarked by a new scene. I think of it as another issue than the one above.
Yeah, I accidentally combined the two. If I can tell an author's doing it on purpose, okay. When it just seems that they're going back and forth, paragraph to paragraph, I think they're being lazy.
I think multiple POVs are an old-fashioned thing - I'm reading an E.M. Forster story where he does it constantly, even within a paragraph. Can't say I like it much, but he's dead, so I can't make him toe the line, either.
Good point! I've shamefully not read any Forster, though I need to. I wonder if the changing POVs would make me crazy, though. One of the disturbing downsides of having become a writer myself is that only rarely now can I be sucked into a story like I used to; I find myself admiring or damning the prose style and adjective/adverb use as though I'm an editor. :sigh: