: Re: When two POV characters meet I have two POV (3rd person limited) characters and they start the story as complete strangers and far apart. They don't meet for some time and they have very different

Write the chapter describing the event twice, once from each point of view. You can even write it from a non-POV character's POV as an additional exercise. In the end, this is the quickest route to the best story (and you learn the most about your characters this way) although you may not want to hear to write it twice.

After you have the various versions down, pick the one that is strongest and most impactful. Many 2-POV novels have their main characters meet up along the way (usually early) and so this is a problem that is commonly encountered.

In terms of having the non-POV viewpoint be radically different (but known and clear to the reader), you do this by establishing viewpoint prior to the event to such an extent that the reader knows exactly what the non-POV character is thinking--even though the scene is not in that character's POV.

Imagine a 2-POV story with DJTrump and a sweet, young beauty contestant who has never met him and knows nothing about him. Imagine the scene when they meet for the first time in the back stage area of the pageant, with all the other contestants. Imagine it from the girl's point of view--even if she is thinking what a kind and generous man Trump is, for taking the time to come and visit all the girls back stage and ask after them, and offer to buy them things, and he says he thinks they're all fantastic, 'what a nice man,' she keeps thinking, WE know her perspective is off because his POV has been so firmly established prior.

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