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How annoyed are you when style changes with POV? Is it a matter of degree or not?
I'm in the last cycle of my revision before I start putting my MS forward, and this is something I have yet to resolve. I've been writing 3rd person limited POV with varying narrative distance from the characters. One of the characters is very distant, one is quite deep, and the rest in between (but distinct). I have a few beta readers working on this, but I wanted to get some more opinions from this forum. Have you ever read novels where this happens, and if so, do you find it annoying or does it actually help you reorient to the new viewpoint? The second option I have been is to write them all in the same narrative depth. In this case a flexible distance which is based on rhythm/pacing/scene. Well, I actually have the MS mostly ready in this style as well and it seems to work as well, but I am quite fond of having really distinct styles for POVs.
Another thing I do with POV changes is a slight change in the complexity of grammar, word choice and so on. I'm not that worried about these changes, as they are quite common and well accepted (at least in SFF, which I write). Still, if you have a differing opinion (or the same) it would be nice to hear.
I'm in the last cycle of my revision before I start putting my MS forward, and this is something I have yet to resolve. I've been writing 3rd person limited POV with varying narrative distance from the characters. One of the characters is very distant, one is quite deep, and the rest in between (but distinct). I have a few beta readers working on this, but I wanted to get some more opinions from this forum. Have you ever read novels where this happens, and if so, do you find it annoying or does it actually help you reorient to the new viewpoint? The second option I have been is to write them all in the same narrative depth. In this case a flexible distance which is based on rhythm/pacing/scene. Well, I actually have the MS mostly ready in this style as well and it seems to work as well, but I am quite fond of having really distinct styles for POVs.
Another thing I do with POV changes is a slight change in the complexity of grammar, word choice and so on. I'm not that worried about these changes, as they are quite common and well accepted (at least in SFF, which I write). Still, if you have a differing opinion (or the same) it would be nice to hear.