By: AJ Humpage
There are a lot
of writers out there that have still not got to grips with multiple POVs and
are therefore still making avoidable errors such as switching POVs mid scene
and having every character in the novel have a viewpoint. It might seem
that multiple POVs are complicated, or they present the writer with all sorts
of complications because of dealing with many characters, but that isn’t really
the case.
They are not
complicated to deal with, if you know what you’re doing. It’s how well the
writer approaches multiple viewpoints that matters.
POV errors
happen – and keep happening – because writers are not taking the time to learn
about them and understand how they work. Fiction writing isn’t just about
writing a story and self-publishing it on Amazon. Writing is complex. That
means all the elements that go into writing are also just as complex.
One of the
faults when dealing with multiple viewpoints in a novel is the inability for
the writer differentiate between characters clearly enough,
because having lots of characters and therefore writing from more than one POV
can be distracting and sometimes confusing for the reader, as well as the
writer. It goes without saying that the main character always has the strongest
viewpoint.
Readers tend to
like as few character viewpoints as possible – it simply makes it easier to
follow the story that way – so when presented with lots more character
viewpoints, they have to concentrate and focus harder to stay with the story.
This is why writers should handle multiple POVs correctly and carefully by
using few rather than many.
Another problem
is that the writer wrongly assumes that he or she has to write from the POV of every
character in the novel in order to tell the story. This simply isn’t
the case. Not every character is important enough to warrant his or her own
POV. Instead, by concentrating on the main characters,
and a few key secondary characters, the writer can focus the story properly, on
the characters that matter.
. . .
Avoid the Problems
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