From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 12/12/18 5:38 PM, bobthrollop@gmail.com wrote:   
   > On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 10:50:41 PM UTC-7, Johnny Tindalos wrote:   
   >> Hullo rasfc'ers, where did everyone go? Have we changed venue?   
   >   
   > I'm dropping back in after a hiatus of nearly ten years...I stopped posting   
   because I'd just run out of things to say.  I never did learn how to write,   
   either.   
   >   
   > I took up one of my old story beginnings last week and started working on it   
   again, and I got bogged down about two pages in.  This time, I identified a   
   problem in my style that I never noticed before, and right now I'm thinking   
   about how to overcome    
   it.   
   >   
   > The problem is that everything I write is from exactly the same point of   
   view and when the story requires a change, I can't do it.  I've been looking   
   over whatever fiction books happened to be sitting around and studying, much   
   more carefully than ever    
   before, how different point of view effects are achieved.   
      
      
      
   	Whether that's a PROBLEM depends on what that point of view is, I   
   guess. I mean, the entirety of any first-person novel, of which there   
   are many, is told from that one character's point of view. There's never   
   a change of point of view, because that's the POINT of the first-person   
   novel; you see things as they are seen from the one main character's (or   
   sometimes a sidekick of the main character) point of view.   
      
   	I always think of "Point of View" as "where is the camera and   
   microphone located?". In First Person, it's located right on the head of   
   the main character. You can see only what they see, know only what they   
   know, etc. In Third Person, the camera is focused on the current PoV   
   character, but from a remove.   
      
      
      
      
      
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