being in 3rd-person limited and then, DAMN, I have this awesome idea/line I could put in, but it'd be from another character's POV, thus destroying that limited thing.
Yes! I often find myself copiously rewriting or even changing structure (let's say to vignettes, where I can comfortably change POV from section to section) to accommodate the info.
You don't get this gradual connection with the character.
Oooh, that's an interesting way of putting it.
And, I have to say here, my 3rd-person limited is probably more of a 3rd-person limited and the 3rd-person closed that you're talking about. In that, the tone is more tailored to the character, but not exactly the vocabulary?
In third person limited, you have a traditional third person narrator except that the narration doesn't reveal any information that the POV character wouldn't know or have access to. Close third person is the same as third person limited except that everything is rendered in the character's voice, not just that character's dialogue. It's as if we're getting a running third person commentary from inside that character's head. So, for instance, if Derek Jeter and his dad are sitting down to dinner, third person limited might say, Derek and his dad ate dinner in silence. Derek wondered what was wrong and close third person might read, Dad was really quiet at dinner and Derek wondered what was wrong. That's like the most shit-tacular example, ever, LOL but hopefully you can see what I mean.
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Date: 2007-03-15 06:14 pm (UTC)Yes! I often find myself copiously rewriting or even changing structure (let's say to vignettes, where I can comfortably change POV from section to section) to accommodate the info.
You don't get this gradual connection with the character.
Oooh, that's an interesting way of putting it.
And, I have to say here, my 3rd-person limited is probably more of a 3rd-person limited and the 3rd-person closed that you're talking about. In that, the tone is more tailored to the character, but not exactly the vocabulary?
In third person limited, you have a traditional third person narrator except that the narration doesn't reveal any information that the POV character wouldn't know or have access to. Close third person is the same as third person limited except that everything is rendered in the character's voice, not just that character's dialogue. It's as if we're getting a running third person commentary from inside that character's head. So, for instance, if Derek Jeter and his dad are sitting down to dinner, third person limited might say, Derek and his dad ate dinner in silence. Derek wondered what was wrong and close third person might read, Dad was really quiet at dinner and Derek wondered what was wrong. That's like the most shit-tacular example, ever, LOL but hopefully you can see what I mean.