: Voice of the author changes with the pov a good idea? I have been writing an action/adventure novel and am having a tough time deciding whether the voice of the writer should undergo a slight/moderate

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To me, it's a terrific idea to change the voice to accord with the POV. Good for you!

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It's probably a good idea to make a distinction: The writer and the narrator are two different "people," one real and one fictional. Most of the time, you don't want the writer's voice in the novel. Tell the novel through the voices of either the POV characters or a narrator.

Now, here's another matter altogether: Whether the narrator and the POV character are the same person.

In an intimate POV, the narrator kinda melts away, and each scene is told in the voice of the POV character. In a more distant POV, the story is told in the voice of the narrator—a fictional, not-directly-mentioned, observer with some kind of attitude toward the story and its characters.

So use a narrator when you want to comment on the story and its characters, either explicitly, or implicitly through the narrator's tone, diction, choice of words, and so on. If you're not trying to do that, use the characters' voices.

The writer's voice is rare in novels, sometimes used for experimental, self-referential stuff. Perhaps other folks can give examples of novels written in the writer's voice, rather than the voice of a narrator or characters.

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