Changing POV

[jryson]

Some writers swing from POV to POV like Tarzan on his grapevines. That's not me. I wrote The Princess in a tight third. First person really, but with "she" replacing "I."

The Talisman starts the same way, In Karen's POV. But Karen and Amaranth are juniors, now, and The Talisman revolves around two freshmen girls, Kelly O'Banyon and Holds-Two-

Comments

[tea_doll]

Hmm. I've never had a problem with switching POV myself; I find it tends to spice things up when you can get into more than one person's head in a story. Only way it becomes a problem is if a writer switches POV in the middle of a scene, or switches too often.

In a case like this one I might start off the second book in a different POV from the first, just to let readers know right off the bat that they aren't in the same POV situation they were in last time. Just a thought.

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[marycatelli]

Introduce the readers to its being a multi-POV story early enough that they are not jolted when you hit them with a change half-way through the book.

Even if this means you put a scene that could be in Karen's POV, into someone else's.