OMG logistics of community management on LJ! Who knew it was so complex!? I've been reduced to using the interrobang to communicate my feelings of utter WTF, LJ?! Why you gotta make things so hard!? at learning all sorts of things I've learned this afternoon
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I'm over-thinking far too much, I find that the more I know, the less I'm able to write. I re-read some fanfic this morning and thought OMG I wrote this? I used to be good!
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I'd say as long as you make the delineations clear, you are set.
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If you really love the lines, at least change the structure so, say, you have lines like that between sections of the main POV.
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When I re-entered fanfic writing a year ago, the majority of my pieces involved two POVs. I felt like I needed two POVs in order to properly express everything. But these days, I usually stick to one per story, and find that it works just fine for conveying what I want to communicate. (Unless I'm doing a five-times piece. In those stories, I'll often have one section from one person's POV, then another section from another character's POV.)
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I believe I've mentioned before about how I am really attached to single-POV stories these days, that I feel they hold the reader closer and allow a much tighter emotional focus.I also wanted to add that I think sticking to one POV can push a writer, in a good way, to do more show vs. tell. If you switch back and forth, then there's a greater temptation, I think, to just say point blank what a character's thinking, rather than use description or action or limited dialogue or silence to communicate what's going through a character ( ... )
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