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: How do I contrast the thought processes of different characters in one scene? I have two characters, Alice and Bob. They have just met and each is trying to deceive the other. But their
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: Splicing/Mixing Scenes Remember the end of the Godfather, where they spliced all the different assassinations with the christening? Or any film with good cutting, where they swap between different
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: Term for writing mostly in first-person, but switching to third-person for things the POV doesn't yet know? What's the term or name of the literary device/technique employed when a novel is mostly
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: Switching perspectives for a single chapter in a first person POV novel, to do or not to do? Allow me to explain what prompted the question before you immediately say that it's not okay and
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: Can a scene be written to be disorienting and not be too confusing to readers? I've written a scene in a short story where the character and her party are suddenly attacked in the night.
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: Writing the same character in two different perspectives? In a novel I am writing, there are three main characters. One a 16-year-old, another an 11-year-old, and a third a 12-year-old. The
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: How to know whether to write in 3rd person or 1st person? How do I know, when I'm writing, which perspective I should write in? I almost always write with a 1st person narrative because it
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: Switching POV from protagonist to antagonist? I'm writing a young adult fantasy with two main characters. Right now, I'm planning on writing it in 3rd person limited from the point of view of
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: How should I have my male character express strong feelings? I am a woman, and I wrote a book out of the perspective of a guy. His best friend tells him she wants to kill herself. So he
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: Two perspectives in a non-fiction book My daughter and I thought it was a good idea to write a book about our experiences throughout her casting for a movie that she did. Her view on the
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: Writing from a hive mind POV The story: Centuries ago, humanity have been incorporated into an alien hive mind, spread by a bacterial-like infection. The "bacteria" infects the blood and brain
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: Writing in a character's voice. How deep should I go with immersion? I am writing a story that has ten main characters, each chapter is a progression of the story but from the perspective
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: What is the voice called when the narrator is a secondary character? Stories that are told by an "all seeing" narrator are told in the "third person." Stories that are told by the main character,
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: Omniscient POV vs deep 3rd person POV After submitting my manuscript the publisher responded with this: "Thank you so much for your interest in publishing with XXXXXXXXXXXX. The publishing industry,
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: Multiple Characters in one scene I'm a beginner at writing and am currently trying to write a more or less long story. Now the problem that I have is, that two of my Characters(a guy and
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: Writing non-fiction in three perspectives? I've been writing a work of non-fiction, specifically a motivational/psychology piece. It's my first book. The book is written primarily in second and
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: How short can a poem be until it can no longer be a poem? I am on a small journey to help me understand what the definition of a poem is to different people, what poems mean to them.
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: Perspective and Balance with Multiple Characters I am working on a piece of fiction and am having some difficulty locking down which perspective/s to utilize. The main issue at hand is that
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: Exercises for improving 3rd person perspective writing Recently I started writing a story. Two equally important protagonists, omniscient 3rd person narrator, a rather sweet romance. And it was
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: Is it a bad idea to vary the voice of the narrator in third person (limited omniscient)? I did some thorough searching for duplicates of this question, but I don't think they really cover
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: Should a long flashback be written in first or third person? In my novel there will be a chapter-length flashback as one character relates a story from his past. The rest of the novel is
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: How best to handle revealing a main character's name midway through a long story in close-third person? I'm writing a novel, and it's written in close third person perspective, very much sitting
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: Dealing with personal trauma in writing Often, I develop mythos that are based on extensions (sometimes fantasy-based) of personal trauma. There are times when it becomes too personal and I literally
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: How can multiple viewpoints be used without breaking the flow of the story? I'm currently writing a story in first-person that has a connection to a series of external events - things that
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: Pros and cons of using perspectives? What are the pros and cons of using first person/second person/third person perspective in your story?
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: Switching POV: Should it ever be done at all? When I started, I had a nasty habit of hopping from perspective to perspective to perspective. I forced myself down to one perspective per chapter,
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