tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855283511538601375.post2749925008853381030..comments2024-03-16T07:27:27.752+00:00Comments on Novel Points of View: FROM GUEST BLOGGER JANEY FRASER'S POINTS OF VIEWRae Cowiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10213969901991611348noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855283511538601375.post-59651252311502541762012-03-05T19:36:40.204+00:002012-03-05T19:36:40.204+00:00I think this is an excellent lesson for all writer...I think this is an excellent lesson for all writers. It makes me wonder how often I have changed POV without considering the reader. I shall be more aware in future.Gwen Kirkwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17201272628774727921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855283511538601375.post-1567796303156628122012-03-03T13:44:43.042+00:002012-03-03T13:44:43.042+00:00I loved this book, and coincidentally read it just...I loved this book, and coincidentally read it just after I'd had a conversation with my niece about POVs. So I was particularly aware of the multiple POVs here. It's a device I like, because it reminds me that there is always more than way of looking at things, in real life as well as in novels.<br /><br />But I'm a bit confused now. As I remember it (and I have just checked, because there's nothing worse than picking the wrong nits when you're nitpicking ... ) the first two chapters are written from Gemma's POV, the next two (3 and 4) are from Nancy's, and only in Chapter 5 do we get inside Joe's head. You said Ed, but I'm not sure that Joe's ex doesn't get her own POV, and of course the 'real' Ed Balls is far too busy in the House of Commons!Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04273390664646152135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855283511538601375.post-73239203894939727502012-03-03T13:42:45.796+00:002012-03-03T13:42:45.796+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04273390664646152135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855283511538601375.post-74078166268812637252012-03-03T11:25:43.137+00:002012-03-03T11:25:43.137+00:00Excellent description on how to display different ...Excellent description on how to display different POV's, and I'm so pleased you made the point that you also need to guard against 'head hopping'. There's nothing more irritating to a reader than feeling they are being forced to jump from one person's POV to another, and then to another, on every page, so eventually they don't know whose story they are supposed to be following, and who is a 'central' character, and who is not<br />Maggie KingsleyMaggie Kingsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12338137535007998534noreply@blogger.com