I don't think it's going out on a limb to say that people are annoyed when protagonists, despite having the same information, fail to understand things that are obvious to readers. However, there's a seeming exception to this that I've encountered frequently.

Protagonist: Gosh, Doc, I feel like I'm going crazy here. There's this nice, ( Read more... )

I'm now editing (in a rewritey sort of way) Lord of the Dark Downs. This is interesting because, along with similar tension problems to the ones that I think my last edit fixed in Rabbit and Cougar, Lord of the Dark Downs has a lot of viewpoint switching. No, really, a lot. There are seven major characters, all of whom have POV sections of their ( Read more... )