By: Susan B.

Susan B. — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:18:09 +0000

You know that I pretty much only write one POV per scene. Sometimes I write in the first person as an exercise to really get into that person’s head during the scene, but putting the real bookish words down in the first person is not something with which I feel comfortable. Whenever I read Nora I WANT to head-hop–to just get all the perspectives over with in that scene and move on. Because sometimes I think that I create redundancy in my work by doing a scene in the heroine’s head, then going to the next scene in the hero’s head and having him think back on the previous scene because aren’t you just thinking- hey, how way it for you?

Actually, if you’re thinking that, maybe I didn’t do my job in the first place. I think about TV/movies. Sometimes you get so sucked into a scene that’s playing out in front of you. You’re not in her head, you’re not in his, you’re not omnisciently looking into everyone’s head or hearing their thoughts. But everything they’re thinking or feeling is being played out there for you to see, even if it’s not written into the dialogue.

So if my POV character heroine could just describe for us what she’s seeing when she’s looking at the hero and he’s looking back at her, maybe we wouldn’t have to go ask him how was it in the next scene, because we’d already know.

Oh no. Is it that Show Don’t Tell rearing its ugly head AGAIN? And is Extreme in your head right now too? Then you wouldn’t have to say that you love me, ’cause I’d already know.

(lyrics-freakin’)Pot

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:55:02 +0000

I find that I can only head hop at comfortable points, like the end of a chapter or scene. When it switches mid-scene, I start twitching. :p

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