Archive for October 8th, 2007

Points of View

Monday, October 8th, 2007

In very early drafts, SanClare Black was third-person omniscient.  This was entirely an accident because I didn’t have a firm grasp on my POV options at the time and hadn’t thought about what would work best for the story.  That all got sorted in subsequent drafts and it ended up very firmly third-person limited with only two POV characters.

And that was the initial plan for SanClare Scarlet, too, but after abortive first draft, I’ve realized I need more voices in this book. So it’ll still be 3rd/limited but there will be more characters doing the looking.  So far, I’ve written three.  I have at least two more in mind.  The main character will still carry the bulk of the POV as he did in SanClare Black.

Anyway, it’s fun to sort these things out in advance this time around.