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post=133935
My grandpa died.
That's sad right? No one cares. Not even me. Not until I heard how completely moot my own father was towards this subject.
What makes a man become so unloved that he rots away in an old age home; only to pass away as if to end a paragraph. He was a heavy duty alcoholic, this I know. What drove him to dive so deep into the liquour that there was nothing else? It's so god damn sad. Imagine, you are on your death bed, and you KNOW there is nothing and no one sad about it. As life slowly slips from your body, you are completely alone.
How fucking scary is that. :( It's really been having me thinking.
In the end, love is the only thing that matters.
Muse
POV switching is a bitch... >__>
POV switching is a bitch... >__>
Yeah, I think the asterisk method works if you aren't using first person.
That's not what I meant... Let me clarify it like this:
*POV of B finding the scene*
*POV of A*
*later POV of B*
or
*POV of A*
*later POV of B*
That's not what I meant... Let me clarify it like this:
*POV of B finding the scene*
*POV of A*
*later POV of B*
or
*POV of A*
*later POV of B*
POV switching is a bitch... >__>
post=133923post=133920Well, Azn, if there's going to be that small of a time gap, I wouldn't even use the timestamp (and I don't, it's only when's there a considerably amount of time that there's nothing of importance happening and I either switch POVs or don't switch and I'm just using the scene break/timestamp to get to a different time of the day.
You have to make those individual 3 segments lengthy enough for them to have some reason and substance rather than just "lol sudden POV change."
Well, I imagine that "someone arriving to view a scene" would be a very short segment.
See, I feel like I HAVE to switch over the "B's" POV for that short while because I feel I need the reader to see him arrive on the scene...Quoting you. Does HAVE mean like... you just feel a random obligation, you feel that way sounds cooler, or you feel that way makes the most sense?
I'm talking about using the timestamp as a POV change which is what you said. You want to find some way to signify a change in POV without it being too redundant. I talked about labeling it with the character's name although personally I would never do that unless I was writing a children's fantasy book. I remember reading a series of books (I think it was Harry Potter? Or maybe the Redwall series) where sections like that were broken up with a long break in the page with 3 stars in the middle.
Although really, depending on the flow of consciousness you don't really need to break up the first character's POV into two sections... You could put character's B with the rest of character B's or place it in the beginning.
By the way, I assumed your general POV is first person.
POV switching is a bitch... >__>
post=133916
I love constant POV switching. I enjoy playing, reading, and viewing every single angle -- protagonist, antagonist-who-you-think-is-a-protagonist, sacrificial lamb, pawns, masterminds, protagonists-who-you-think-are-antagonists, etc.
Mitsuhide, I think you and I would get along really well :)
Did you even read what he said? Also "playing" is unrelated... Changing POV with a visual aspect like a videogame or film is completely different.
Anyways.
It is bad writing to confuse your readers. (this is different from setting things up for a twist, etc.)
It is good writing to write things out in a clear manner.
Using a timestamp could work however you will want to gauge the flow. The main problem with what I see here is that you will have a short segment broken up by timestamps in a way that may feel unnatural. (using the timestamp you gave as an example)
(San Francisco, California, USA - Monday, May 5th, 2009 - 7:51 AM)
I was walking through the streets in the morning and suddenly from around the corner a big man wielding a knife ran up and I could hear footsteps coming up from behind bla bla bla...
(San Francisco, California, USA - Monday, May 5th, 2009 - 7:52 AM)
I saw some dude getting mugged.
(San Francisco, California, USA - Monday, May 5th, 2009 - 7:52 AM)
I was getting mugged by these two thugs.
You have to make those individual 3 segments lengthy enough for them to have some reason and substance rather than just "lol sudden POV change."
POV switching is a bitch... >__>
POV switching will be weird unless you do it between chapters, long segments, or split it up with diary-ish sort of entry type things where you label each POV's beginning with "RALF" "JOHN" or whatever the hell. POV switching too much can be annoying and multiple protagonists can be confusing.
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