Comments on: A cautionary tale of Third Person, limited and the attack of the POV https://shepline.com/2007/02/06/a-cautionary-tale-of-third-person-limited-and-the-attack-of-the-pov/ author | illustrator | digital designer Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:47:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Thomas https://shepline.com/2007/02/06/a-cautionary-tale-of-third-person-limited-and-the-attack-of-the-pov/#comment-29578 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:18:49 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1591#comment-29578 Thanks! 🙂 I *think* I’m beginning to understand now…

]]> By: bright_as_day https://shepline.com/2007/02/06/a-cautionary-tale-of-third-person-limited-and-the-attack-of-the-pov/#comment-29577 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:30:05 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1591#comment-29577 You tend to slip between limited and omni. You write from different POVs (Ben’s, Eleanor’s, Hanna Katla’s), which is fine, as long as you stick to one POV per scene.

*But* you sometimes slip, where – for instance – you’re writing a section from Hanna Katla’s POV, but during the scene you throw in something like, ‘Ben frowns, unsure what Hanna means’ – in other words, you’re head-hopping between Hanna and Ben in a scene that is supposed to be in Hanna’s POV.

Third person omni is very much out of favour – publishers don’t like it. If I see any POV slips I’ll point them out 😉

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