On Switching POV
And now, dear reader, I think the time has come for a pause to consider the path of our story: where it has been, where it is, and where it is going, leading me on in such a way that I have chosen to execute this pause in the telling in the old Victorian manor--not the ancient house with the great feasts, distraught characters with baroque strings at their balls, the ghosts of murders of most fowl moaning at passersby through stained-glass windows, and which contains an O, but rather the one which contains an E and two Ns, and refers to custom, thus using the term in the Bulwer-Lyttonesque sense to partially vent my frustration of the lack of market for us aspiring Writers of the Purple Page.
The fulcrum of my distress rotates around the difficulty in positioning my POV in the places and times of events in the Chilven War, the second book in the series. Karen did well in the first book, The Princess at Bible Grove, scarcely ever out of the presence of Princess Mary Amaranth Elizabeth Victoria Vinecourt, Princess of Balmoral, Protector of the Spelling Bees, and Feeder of the Royal Seal; skillfully assisting her in the prevention of the nefarious Faction IV in their plot to instigate premature contact of the galactic society with the Earth, and showing all that to us.
The Chilven War goes on around Holds-Two-Moons Cody, of Usania(“Just call me Cody, Ma’am.”); and Kelly O’Banyon, a “local” girl. They are Two years behind Karen and Amaranth, and I find myself forced into various tricks to have Karen in the scene, and for no other reason but for her hold the camera. I thus find myself obliged to change to Kelly’s point of view.
So I rewote the passage where we first meet Kelly. I find it does facilitate the passing of information about her, and about Cody as well. I have written a couple of new scenes using her point of view, and it seems to work. I find I will need to keep Karen as a second POV. She is after all the ring-leader of the Pontarium students at the school. She must also work closely with Miss Farnsworth in the investigations that insue.
And so begins my adventure in POV switching.
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The fulcrum of my distress rotates around the difficulty in positioning my POV in the places and times of events in the Chilven War, the second book in the series. Karen did well in the first book, The Princess at Bible Grove, scarcely ever out of the presence of Princess Mary Amaranth Elizabeth Victoria Vinecourt, Princess of Balmoral, Protector of the Spelling Bees, and Feeder of the Royal Seal; skillfully assisting her in the prevention of the nefarious Faction IV in their plot to instigate premature contact of the galactic society with the Earth, and showing all that to us.
The Chilven War goes on around Holds-Two-Moons Cody, of Usania(“Just call me Cody, Ma’am.”); and Kelly O’Banyon, a “local” girl. They are Two years behind Karen and Amaranth, and I find myself forced into various tricks to have Karen in the scene, and for no other reason but for her hold the camera. I thus find myself obliged to change to Kelly’s point of view.
So I rewote the passage where we first meet Kelly. I find it does facilitate the passing of information about her, and about Cody as well. I have written a couple of new scenes using her point of view, and it seems to work. I find I will need to keep Karen as a second POV. She is after all the ring-leader of the Pontarium students at the school. She must also work closely with Miss Farnsworth in the investigations that insue.
And so begins my adventure in POV switching.
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