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And the difference is . . . ?
I always figured the point of an omniscient narrator was that they knew everything hence they could "see" into the heads of multiple characters (thus omniscient) but when I tend to write what I think is omniscient it's deemed head hopping by betas. So what's the difference between the two? Is it the "norm" to write a third person limited as opposed to an omniscient and when people see "head hopping" they're just assuming that the author meant to write in limited and couldn't keep the writing tight? I'm having difficulty grasping the difference between the two since, from what I understand of an omniscient narrator (essentially an all-knowing narrator) is that they head hop. Otherwise they wouldn't be omniscient.
I always figured the point of an omniscient narrator was that they knew everything hence they could "see" into the heads of multiple characters (thus omniscient) but when I tend to write what I think is omniscient it's deemed head hopping by betas. So what's the difference between the two? Is it the "norm" to write a third person limited as opposed to an omniscient and when people see "head hopping" they're just assuming that the author meant to write in limited and couldn't keep the writing tight? I'm having difficulty grasping the difference between the two since, from what I understand of an omniscient narrator (essentially an all-knowing narrator) is that they head hop. Otherwise they wouldn't be omniscient.
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