Sunday, February 05, 2006
In the process of working on my WIP, Raven's White Hart, I've learned some interesting lessons about POV and what's referred to as "head-hopping". , I knew that it disturbed me as a reader when a character in a story I was reading would know something they couldn't or would make an observation that seemed totally out of character, but until I learned more about it, I wasn't fully aware of why specifically it bothered me or what it was called.
I've been trying to be careful in my WIP to make one re-reading pass focus on POV and staying true to it - I catch it more frequently than I would like to but I'm glad that I look for it. Hopefully I'll start to do it less and less the more writing I do.
Today, I was reading Alison Kent's Blog and she had a link to an interesting post on POV Slippage from Storytelling. I thought I'd link to it here for anyone else who is interested in an interesting short blurb on it.
I've been trying to be careful in my WIP to make one re-reading pass focus on POV and staying true to it - I catch it more frequently than I would like to but I'm glad that I look for it. Hopefully I'll start to do it less and less the more writing I do.
Today, I was reading Alison Kent's Blog and she had a link to an interesting post on POV Slippage from Storytelling. I thought I'd link to it here for anyone else who is interested in an interesting short blurb on it.
posted by Maura Anderson at 2:22 PM
