tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430848916584126169.post4476601762303720647..comments2023-09-21T16:07:32.310-04:00Comments on Eye on Ashenclaw: Point of View ShiftsGary F. Vanuccihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15208762635651539773noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430848916584126169.post-67253249432322805572012-03-24T07:25:19.921-04:002012-03-24T07:25:19.921-04:00Sher, thanks again for stopping by to share your t...Sher, thanks again for stopping by to share your thoughts! Head-hopping can be quite distracting for me now as I read. Knowing what someone is thinking or being given a piece of information that is not given organically is kind of a bummer! Mystery and suspense, as well as many other genres will find themselves defeated as they read this type of story-telling. Thanks for sharing and for giving self-published authors advice on editing! Please stop by again in the near future to share more with us. Cheers!Gary F. Vanuccihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15208762635651539773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430848916584126169.post-87901394947123517872012-03-21T00:24:27.893-04:002012-03-21T00:24:27.893-04:00I noticed omniscient POV in many older books. It d...I noticed omniscient POV in many older books. It didn't bother me if done in a storyteller's voice because then I identified with the narrator. But head-hopping really bothers me in a book where there's no narrator and the characters all spout their thoughts in the same scene. It's mental chaos. Do you want to know what everyone else around you is thinking? It ruins the reader's interest in character relationships because there's no mystery, and it ruins the plot suspense when we know who the bad guy is because of his thoughts before he ever does something bad. I wonder if omniscient POV will become widespread again since so many authors are self-publishing. I hope not. If more indie authors would hire an editor, reviews like these wouldn't happen:http://theselfpublishingreview.wordpress.com/Sher A. Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03067955594103356768noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430848916584126169.post-43579503309570466362012-03-13T07:02:21.450-04:002012-03-13T07:02:21.450-04:00Hi, Rhiannon and thanks for the comments! I am sta...Hi, Rhiannon and thanks for the comments! I am starting to think that this is a subject that either you love or hate. I am not sure that readers are even aware of this unless you are conscious of if when you start reading. That being said, I can understand that it would drive you crazy. I am certainly conscious of it moving forward and have made some minor changes on my latest novel in progress to reflect that. If I have to jump 'heads' to get something across, I am doing a page break first. I appreciate your opinion and am glad that you have a stance to share. Thanks for the comment again and please stop back to share more with us in the near future!Gary F. Vanuccihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15208762635651539773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2430848916584126169.post-80735300715976367962012-03-11T21:15:50.751-04:002012-03-11T21:15:50.751-04:00Hey! POV shifts are my PET PEEVE. I didn't eve...Hey! POV shifts are my PET PEEVE. I didn't even realize I was making them until an editor pointed them out and was like, "switch this to third person limited." I wasn't even aware of the difference between third person omniscient v.s. limited until I googled it. Now, when I read, I DO notice it. I especially notice it when a writer goes from third to first in different scenes, and I think that's messy enough. But third person omniscient is enough to make me put down a book these days. I kind of refuse to read books that use that POV simply because it's so hard for me to keep with the story. Huntress by Malindo Lo was the last book I read in third person omniscient and I've thus tried to avoid them. I keep my own writing to third person limited and love Cassandra Clare for what she's done in her books with regards to that. Good luck with your own POV woes, I hope you figure out what you want to do!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10688873662201583987noreply@blogger.com