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I know how important your POV is but I ran into a real problem in a YA story. My main character was attacked and became unconcious. I realise I could just start the story back up when she comes too but then I would miss out some serious character interaction and needed subplot info...plus it was a majorly great time to slip in some really great (and needed) character views that are needed.............ARGHHHHHHHH WHAT DO I DO NOW?????? Is it allowed to switch POV temporarily while they nurse her back to health? Otherwise the relationship with her romantic interest seems awfully one sided and the relationship that makes up the plot and the reason she's there doesn't have any real meat to it....no real start.
As I understand it...3rd person multiple POV most of main action is from the main character but you can still use other viewpoints of the other characters.
So am I safe here? She's out of it for for several hours and the other characters interact around her. Now, towards the end........she gets kidnapped for awhile and I ended up with a really long dialogue catching her up on the events that happened while she was gone and I wonder if (I know) it would read better to switch between the POV's if I can figure out how to do it without confusing the reader. There are things happening where she is....and there are things happening back where the others are. Both are important to tie everything together.
As I understand it...3rd person multiple POV most of main action is from the main character but you can still use other viewpoints of the other characters.
So am I safe here? She's out of it for for several hours and the other characters interact around her. Now, towards the end........she gets kidnapped for awhile and I ended up with a really long dialogue catching her up on the events that happened while she was gone and I wonder if (I know) it would read better to switch between the POV's if I can figure out how to do it without confusing the reader. There are things happening where she is....and there are things happening back where the others are. Both are important to tie everything together.
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