tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9120487666126442427.post3986876210022882135..comments2023-12-10T16:39:49.811+08:00Comments on Egoboo WA: The Revenge of Omni Rampant?SarahPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10331711532075086214noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9120487666126442427.post-64063207445809260792010-10-02T20:42:06.254+08:002010-10-02T20:42:06.254+08:00Hi Emily, Sifting pov in different sections is a g...Hi Emily, Sifting pov in different sections is a great way to do it, unlike head hopping which does it from paragraph to paragraph within sections with no warning. I reckon you should write the way you enjoy too. As for me, if I'm not enjoying myself, it shows in my writing.Carol Ryleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06303656672609607055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9120487666126442427.post-66677150385368523932010-10-02T19:30:26.284+08:002010-10-02T19:30:26.284+08:00Hooray! This lines up exactly with what I am bein...Hooray! This lines up exactly with what I am being taught... <br /><br />My novel is written in Third person limited, and it shifts p.o.v. in each section... it's sort of a hybrid. But you know what, I'll just do as I please until something sticks. I'd rather enjoy writing and suck at it than be successful and miserable. If I wanted to be miserable, I would be studying law.Emily Paullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03483043817609949536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9120487666126442427.post-37697175117038874862010-10-02T15:32:37.250+08:002010-10-02T15:32:37.250+08:00I don't mind what pov a novel is written in, s...I don't mind what pov a novel is written in, so long as it's written well and takes full advantage of the perspective chosen. Like you Satima, I'm not fond of head hopping but I have found that a tight third omniscient can work for me as a reader, especially when the narrator shows parts of the world in a widescreen shot much like a camera zoomed out. The pov character can't see their world that way, but as a reader, I get a much better view of the big picture. Must admit, I can't stand too many paragraphs of the widescreen shot, because it starts to feel too much like static description, but when it appears at the right time and place, it's a joy to read. Glenda Larke does it well in the first two paragraphs of Chapter 6 in The Last Stormlord, I think, but her description is full of movement making the setting feel like a character and not just backdrop.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9120487666126442427.post-11365553751887182312010-10-02T14:55:09.472+08:002010-10-02T14:55:09.472+08:00I heard the other day that half the short listed b...I heard the other day that half the short listed books for the current Booker are written in the first person. I think most fantasy is written in tight third, so having grown up reading it, this is what many fantasy writers prefer, and might account for some of their strange hatred of first person. Personally, I don't really care what pov is used. I write in both third person and first, using which one I deem suits the story I am writing. <br /><br />With dialogue tags, I only seem to notice them when they jar, like ejaculated etc, which I saw used recently. I've read On Writing, but before that I used said 99% of the time. <br /><br />I deem full on action starts important to rip a reader into a short story. Not so much a novel. I have been reading the Macquarie Pen Anthology of Australian Literature and find I become impatient with the description starts of many of the stories written over a century ago. Unless the description implies the problem or question to be answered, like describing a murder scene, I think the author should scrap it and quickly get to the action. They can then fill in the description a sentence at a time.Graham Clementshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06430135062211828206noreply@blogger.com