: Re: Should i have four points of view for my novel? I have four friends who all have roles to play in my novel. Person A is why things start to happen to the whole group. Person B has protected

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Point Of View is nothing more than a perspective angle at which you show your story to your readers. It is for you to decide whether you need more than one, and which flavor of the POV to pick–first person, third person, etc. Ultimately it is your story which should factor into your choice and any so-called rule e.g. "do-not-use-more-than-three-POVs-ever", just like any other canned writing recipe ("show-not-tell", "never-diversify-dialog-tags", "if-your-first-novel-is-longer-than-100,000-words-you-are-doomed", etc.) is nothing more than a suggestion.

Chefs do not cook by someone else's recipes. Line cooks do.

If the events in your story require being viewed from different angles, you have to provide those angles; even if all of your characters are in the same room all the time, each person's reaction to the same situation will be different, based on their background and experience.

Another way of dealing with that would be telling the story from a single omniscient point of view, where you know what everyone thinks and feels, but it often results in a less personal feeling of the narrative.

The choice is always yours.

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