Saturday, March 20, 2010

Boy does this give me a headache

After a suggestion from a friend, I decided to take another look at chapter one.  I feel like an idiot.  The story is there.  Beautiful.  I love it.  But every time I read those first two chapters, there are times where the flow breaks down and just sounds like crap.  Well, after my friend saying the flow was rather choppy I deciding to really scrutinize my work.  Ha, my work, as if anything is truly mine.  But that is a good thing.  Anyway, I realized that I was not consistent with the POV.  This story is third person, yes, but told from the POV of two characters (never in the same chapter).  So why, do I have paragraphs at various point containing third person omniscient POV describing things in a way for the reader.  No no no.  If this is from a character’s POV then some items, or situations, would not be described in such a way.  Which of course, was why flow, especially in the first chapter, was so damn choppy.  Hopefully, I fixed that.  But we will see.

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