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Point of View Question

A question:

I've heard point of view described as the view from the camera on top of a character's head. Sometimes it is wired into their psyche. I think most often it is not.

Lately in my novels, the camera seems to jump between characters......

My novel, "Rage of Envy Rewrite Project" , for example, the camera jumps between two characters, the girlfriend of the accused and a police detective. The accused, the gf, and three other boys, are on the run. There is very little contact between these two characters through most of the story. It is just told from the two points of view.

My other novel that I'm working on, "Birchwood Manor" , is about five characters stuck in a haunted manor...and the point of view camera jumps between all of them. I'm trying to use third -person-omniscient without delving into their heads.

I would be the second to tell you that I have trouble handling point of view in my stories. (The first to tell you would have been my Writing group leader if he were still alive. Then he would give me a lecture about staying in tense, which I am worse at.)
You don't even want to see what happens when I try to delve into a character's head. I end up with three page monologues, just for starters. It gets even uglier from there.

so I put it out to you, dear WdC members. Am I going about it okay, or am I full of bologna?





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