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I hadn’t given this any conscious thought in so many years, but I feel like I used to write in Third Person Omniscient most of the time and now I’m almost always Third Person Limited and past tense. I don’t even know where I’d start with anything else!
I used to write in a lazy Third Person Semi-Omniscient Head-Hopping style, in like, 2000, but I very deliberately trained myself out of it by writing a novel in 1st person with the full intention of rewriting it in 3rd, in about 2003. So.
At this point I have no idea how I’d even try to do Omniscient. I don’t know. I don’t think I could. Point of view is like– the entire framing device from which I consider fictional events, now. I often genuinely don’t know what the non-POV characters are seeing or feeling. I don’t know how I’d even try.
I could research it, but at this point I just– I feel like my energies are better expended just writing like I do, for now?
But i feel you. I don’t know how to do other than I do. I feel like I’m past that kind of stylistic experimentation. I did present tense and second person and shit like that when I was Trying To Master The Craft etc., and now I’m really just drowning in trying to tell a dang story and I don’t have time to think about that stuff.
More power to the people who do, really, but.
I hadn’t given this any conscious thought in so many years, but I feel like I used to write in Third Person Omniscient most of the time and now I’m almost always Third Person Limited and past tense. I don’t even know where I’d start with anything else!
I used to write in a lazy Third Person Semi-Omniscient Head-Hopping style, in like, 2000, but I very deliberately trained myself out of it by writing a novel in 1st person with the full intention of rewriting it in 3rd, in about 2003. So.
At this point I have no idea how I’d even try to do Omniscient. I don’t know. I don’t think I could. Point of view is like– the entire framing device from which I consider fictional events, now. I often genuinely don’t know what the non-POV characters are seeing or feeling. I don’t know how I’d even try.
I could research it, but at this point I just– I feel like my energies are better expended just writing like I do, for now?
But i feel you. I don’t know how to do other than I do. I feel like I’m past that kind of stylistic experimentation. I did present tense and second person and shit like that when I was Trying To Master The Craft etc., and now I’m really just drowning in trying to tell a dang story and I don’t have time to think about that stuff.
More power to the people who do, really, but.
