I had
two goals for this weekend (1. finish my
spn_summergen story and 2. catch up with Mad Men in time for the s2 premiere) and I achieved neither of them. Sigh.
However, my
spn_summergen story is well on its way to being done now. I had a huge crisis about how to get what needs to happen to actually happen, but I flailed at
luzdeestrellas and
angelgazing and figured out how to make a virtue of
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you have to show that Tony is totally oblivious to all the things she's thinking, but the *reader* has to be aware of those things, except you have to stay in Tony's head
This especially. I mean, it's easy to show two people care about each other when you're getting both POVs, but to show it by one person's actions/words only, and to show the POV character totally misinterpreting things while the reader gets what's going on - yeah, that I find both interesting and challenging.
My other small pet peeve is when authors write the same scene (or the same story) from multiple POVs but don't bother to add anything new. Yeah, that to me is only interesting if there really is something entirely different going on. Otoh, I once wrote a story that was eight points of view on one event, and what it meant to each of the characters and how it was viewed differently by all of them. That ( ... )
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It is funny sometimes reading really beginner stories on ff.net etc. where people will give both povs in a romance where both characters are just like I really like him/her! But she doesn't like me! Just, as the comment above says, changing the pronouns. If you're going to do two different limited povs they almost have to be completely different--like, even if essentially they both are into each other, they need to have completely different issues to the point where it's like two different stories.
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It's so depressing to realize you have to cut that kind of stuff. I am very bad at killing my darlings.
If you're going to do two different limited povs they almost have to be completely different--like, even if essentially they both are into each other, they need to have completely different issues to the point where it's like two different stories.
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I mean, I do think it's a beginner error, and I also think in some cases it's just a poor attempt at omniscient narration (which is hard! I've never successfully pulled off third person omniscient).
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Sometimes walking away and coming back a few months later helps. I had one story in my head for a long time and just couldn't make it work. And then one day I changed both the POV (from third to second) and made it go backwards instead of forwards, and I wrote it in one sitting. After months and months of being stuck.
i get really frustrated with the story when i know things the pov character doesn't.
It depends on the story. I really hate when people are stupid in function of the plot, definitely.
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