I find that if you want to stick with the same character's voice, though, you can tell it as if someone has told it to them. But that's difficult to work into the storyline...
I mess around with perspective a lot - I find it can be quite freeing.
I kind of agree with you in needing to clearly define the narrator. In the case of third-person limited, I wouldn't switch to another character's "thoughts" unless you have a clear scene break.
I did a third-person omniscient narrator once, and I think as long as the reader knows that the narrator has this type of "power", it's okay?
ON THE OTHER HAND, if the narrator is set up as a defined character and then s/he's telling the reader all about what characters are doing when s/he isn't present... (I have a German book that is like this. I want to smack the author because the idea is great and the main character is really fun but I fucking hate the narrator and want to punch him in the face a lot.)
I find perspective shifts mid-scene jarring when I'm reading. If you need to write a scene with your main POV character not there, I would recommend closing off your current scene and picking a different POV character.
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I find that if you want to stick with the same character's voice, though, you can tell it as if someone has told it to them. But that's difficult to work into the storyline...
I mess around with perspective a lot - I find it can be quite freeing.
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I did a third-person omniscient narrator once, and I think as long as the reader knows that the narrator has this type of "power", it's okay?
ON THE OTHER HAND, if the narrator is set up as a defined character and then s/he's telling the reader all about what characters are doing when s/he isn't present... (I have a German book that is like this. I want to smack the author because the idea is great and the main character is really fun but I fucking hate the narrator and want to punch him in the face a lot.)
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