it's going to be one of those nights

[mickeym]

So, Big Bang. I can't decide if I want to tell it solely from Sam's POV, or alternate Sam and Dean. While I'm procrastinating thinking about it, have a poll and tell me YOUR thoughts on changing the voice within a story:

[Poll #1173965]

Comments

[destina.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Re question 3 - I think any story where the POV changes each paragraph is either a badly written story, or possibly meant to be in omniscient, which 99% of people don't pull off well and thus it comes across as constant POV-switching as if the writer doesn't know better. The only way to manage that is to change POV at section breaks.

Re questions 1 and 2 - I have no issue at all with stories from multiple POVs, 'cause I do it all the time and I love it in others' stories, but I suppose the key question for me as a writer is whether or not it's actually necessary. I try to decide which character's POV is most important - whose story am I telling? which events can be observed, and through whose eyes? - and stick with it. If I run into a scene that absolutely has to be from a different character's POV, then I take a look at whether I started with the correct POV in the first place, or if I need to balance the POVs between two characters. I guess the important thing is that POV switches for storytelling be a deliberate choice, not a default to fix a storytelling issue.

Hi, that was the longest comment EVER. I may have had too much caffeine today. *g*

[mickeym.livejournal.com]

Jesus, Des. That icon. *creeps away* Also, hi!! :)

I think...what I actually needed to do was to get something started which forced me to think about how the story needs to go. In my head, just randomly wandering over the idea, it looked like it could be told from Sam AND Dean, or just Sam. And now, having read through everyone's thoughts and comments and really *thinking* about it, I think it'll be just Sam's POV. He seems to be the primary voice in my head.

No such thing as too much caffeine ;) *snugs*