Re: Looking for the right reader

"Bill Swears" <wswears@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Patricia C. Wrede wrote:
> > "Bill Swears" <wswears@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:11r4fcghfl1lvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >>As some of you are aware, I've committed omni-multi POV. Nonetheless,
> >>I've been asked to buff up "Split Affinity" 164,500 words, for shipping
> >>upstairs.
> >
> >
> > OK, first off, there's no such thing as "multiple-viewpoint omniscient" that
> > I know of. An omniscient viewpoint is *omniscient*. He/she/it is *allowed*
> > to focus on this character and then that character; there are different ways
> > of doing the hand-off, depending on what kind of omniscient you're doing.
>
> My book started out essentially omniscient. But. This caused massive
> confusion among my "knowledgeable" readers, and I have some fear that
> I've created more problems than I solved in my efforts to comply with
> various people's ideas of how to write. I fear that I may now have made
> a hash of something that started out as true omniscient viewpoint
> storytelling.


By and large if I think I've made a hash of something I have and even
if several people tell me it's OK I won't be happy until it works for
me.
Why don't you read several novels in true omniscient and then read
yours again?
I'm afraid I am no expert on POV so I won't offer to read
your novel, but if you think it's probably wrong you probably need to
fix
it and you probably need to take less notice of what other people (who
are not editors) say - er - including me.


Nicky



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