I reckon I'm of the 'stick with one POV' camp. Not against a justified switch if it's warranted or well marked, but I suppose that's purely subjective. I do find mid-paragraph switches jarring, as well as POV's that flop about repeatedly. I enjoy telling the story from one character's point of view, and I don't always want the reader to know what the OTHER character(s) are thinking.
When I was writing my first multi-chap, I went to great lengths to keep each chapter's POV from one character only, no matter how difficult it was. There was one chapter where I switched the POV's between three characters to tell a scene from each character's POV; I warned of it at the beginning of the chap, and used paragraph breaks. No one really complained, and I sort of like how it turned out. Later in the same fic, I think I used three chapters to describe the same sequence of events from three different POV's.
Thanks for this, luv, even though I'm well behind the pack here...
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When I was writing my first multi-chap, I went to great lengths to keep each chapter's POV from one character only, no matter how difficult it was. There was one chapter where I switched the POV's between three characters to tell a scene from each character's POV; I warned of it at the beginning of the chap, and used paragraph breaks. No one really complained, and I sort of like how it turned out. Later in the same fic, I think I used three chapters to describe the same sequence of events from three different POV's.
Thanks for this, luv, even though I'm well behind the pack here...