Write-ins and POVs
Last night, I had the interesting fortune to meet up with three Nano-ers from Sydney for a write-in. It was pretty good; we had some dinner in the city and then got stuck into writing. I personally didn’t get much done, but I did get about a thousand words down and a better sense of where this new Meleverse idea is going.
At one point, we were discussing POV for writing, as one of the others wanted to be showing stuff the main character had no idea about. I think the story was in first person, which by nature would limit one to writing only what the main character knows, experiences and all and wanting to show stuff he couldn’t and wouldn’t know or experience would require third person.
But third person in itself has four different modes.
Third person limited seems to be a first person pov merely written in third person text, as the story is experienced within the thoughts and senses of just one character, commonly the main, as seen in Harry Potter.
Third person omniscient allows one to explore anywhere in the story, knowing all the facts. This is what I tend to use for Meledon Phoenix, although it could be argued that I’m blending omniscient and limited in that we know all the facts, but they are coming at us through the perspective of the main cast–the Yellow Master, Lily Evans-Potter, Trini Kwan, Nymphadora Tonks, etc.
The other two–subjective and objective–I don’t actually use… well, in theory I should be using objective when I have a newspaper article in Meledon Phoenix, but who knows if I’m succeeding?
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