: Re: 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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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card did something like this, although they weren't quite integral to the plot. The entire story was told from Ender's point of view, but the beginning of each chapter had a radio transmission or other news-type broadcast that was talking about the current events in the rest of the world, outside his secluded space station.

But it seems like you actually need to have developed characters and narrative in your brief sections. There's nothing wrong with a short chapter, but if you're going to get more detailed than a quote or two you probably shouldn't stick it at the beginning of another chapter.

From the options you're toying with, I like number 2 because it doesn't force you to come up with some kind of snippet every chapter when there really shouldn't be one. I once wrote a novel with a similar forced format to your first option, and it resulted in a lot of fluff and a lot less tension. That's probably a lot because I was a terrible writer at the time, but it is also partially because of the restriction.

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