: Re: What are some Que and Clues on 3rd Person POV shift? I am writing in 3rd person limited POV. I have noticed I have section of text that seem to shift to omniscient. A lot of this happens

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(1) explaining the thoughts of a character other than the protagonist

(2) depicting events from which the protagonist is absent

(3) depicting the protagonist in non-conscious states (i.e., sleeping, dead… I guess)

Those are just a few. You can think of it this way: could your protagonist narrate this prose to his- or herself in the third-person? (Maybe that's a bit convoluted.)

If you do wish to switch, you can delineate the change at least subtly by starting a new chapter (and perhaps the reader will pick up on the pattern of omniscient- vs non- chapters). I've read books where the non-omniscient chapters feature, after their chapter-number, the name of the character to whose PoV the chapter is constricted.

If you're aware of what you're doing, it shouldn't be too big of a deal. Good luck!

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