* My issues with POV are pretty much unexistent. In fact I didn't even know exactly what POV stood for, in fanfic, till I started writing BtVS fic, before that it was just the classical first, second, third person or Witness, Protagonist, Omnipresent. Pretty simple. Then this friend of mine introduced me to limited POV, and I found it pretty neat, because it was, more or less so, the style I'd been looking for. I love being able to tell I story, in third person, limiting myself to tell things the way a certain character sees them. I am, apparently, kinda good with it which means that sometimes means I get reviews like: "Buffy's delusional for thinking that! Can't she tell Faith doesn't really mean what she says?!?!?!?!" And my answer's always no, because she really CAN'T tell Faith would not mean it, because she's not a mind reader. So this is how it goes, I don't have a lot of problems with writing from a determined character's POV, but sometimes I take it too far I guess.
* Sometimes when I'm distracted I do jump from one character to the other, but because I'm obsessive bout grammar and spelling and I triple check my stories, I almost always catch it and then, if I really, really need the imput of the second character's perspective, then I change the style of the entire thing, to one that's not limited to just one character's view of things.
* I have this thing, ok, where I can totally get into a caracter's POV but not when it regards itself. It's a bit tricky. If I'm writing a story about Faith, it's more likely that most of it will be written from a second character's POV. If I'm writing a story about Buffy, same deal. Funny thing is that I can write both of those characters in different situations and use them as the pseudo-narrative voice of the story, but writing form a specific character's POV regarding itself just doesn't come naturally most of the time. I think I don't trust characters, or people in general, to be very accurate when it comes to self reflection, and if I want to write a story about a spoiled, stubborn, sometimes condesending character, who's also good, brave, caring and whatnot, I don't trust my skills enough to truly convey all the aspects of the character I'm trying to write about if I'm doing so from their POV's.
On the other hand, I love close third person. It flows pretty naturally [with certain characters], which, yay, because I've heard it's not uncommon for people to struggle with this one. The hardest ever POV for me to write is First person, mostly for the reason presented above. I don't trust a character to be completely accurate when it comes to itself, everyone has a degree of self delusion when it comes to themselves, right? Plus I think, in my case, it would be lazy writing. Omniscient POV is easy. Maybe because I started out as a fiction writer, and because the subtleties of my first language are great in the way that I feel totally familiar with this one, but it's not hard to be impartial and to just tell a story. I find this one to be maybe the easiest POV of all. But of course, in fictionland, people like the close or distant third person form better and I guess I am a push over.
here via METAFANDOM [Part One]
* Sometimes when I'm distracted I do jump from one character to the other, but because I'm obsessive bout grammar and spelling and I triple check my stories, I almost always catch it and then, if I really, really need the imput of the second character's perspective, then I change the style of the entire thing, to one that's not limited to just one character's view of things.
* I have this thing, ok, where I can totally get into a caracter's POV but not when it regards itself. It's a bit tricky. If I'm writing a story about Faith, it's more likely that most of it will be written from a second character's POV. If I'm writing a story about Buffy, same deal. Funny thing is that I can write both of those characters in different situations and use them as the pseudo-narrative voice of the story, but writing form a specific character's POV regarding itself just doesn't come naturally most of the time. I think I don't trust characters, or people in general, to be very accurate when it comes to self reflection, and if I want to write a story about a spoiled, stubborn, sometimes condesending character, who's also good, brave, caring and whatnot, I don't trust my skills enough to truly convey all the aspects of the character I'm trying to write about if I'm doing so from their POV's.
On the other hand, I love close third person. It flows pretty naturally [with certain characters], which, yay, because I've heard it's not uncommon for people to struggle with this one. The hardest ever POV for me to write is First person, mostly for the reason presented above. I don't trust a character to be completely accurate when it comes to itself, everyone has a degree of self delusion when it comes to themselves, right? Plus I think, in my case, it would be lazy writing. Omniscient POV is easy. Maybe because I started out as a fiction writer, and because the subtleties of my first language are great in the way that I feel totally familiar with this one, but it's not hard to be impartial and to just tell a story. I find this one to be maybe the easiest POV of all. But of course, in fictionland, people like the close or distant third person form better and I guess I am a push over.