Ok, I have a question, I am currently stuck on a chapter in the story I'm writing.
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I was wondering what people would think if the point of view switched from one character to the other? like if one died or something, and the story keeps going on, but from a different person. no one dies, but i was just wondering what you'd think.
Your comments will really help on this one, i cant continue on writing if i dont get an answer.
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Charles Bukowski has a poem called so you want to be a writer? and it goes like this
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don't do it.
if you're doing it for money or
fame,
don't do it.
if you're doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don't do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don't do it.
if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,
don't do it.
if you're trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you're not ready.
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don't do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don't do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in
you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.
and i don't mean that as an insult but more as guidance. If you don't know what to do with your story, stop writing for a while, don't try to force it out, let some kind of inspiration come to you. Ernest Hemingway used to write in the way that he'd write whatever he was writing for the day up until a certain point where he knew a little bit of what was going to happen next and then he stopped so that he could pick it up again the next day, and then he didn't think about his story or writing at all until the next day when he picked up writing again and he hoped that there would be some kind of unconscious inspiration to hit him and provide further direction for his story.
Don't try to force things. You have to love it. You have to have to write it.
It's fine to have a story from multiple points of view, as long as you can easily distinguish who is talking. Make sure you can do that and then make sure it's all in the same tense and you're all set!
I think that was an excellent poem and piece of advice. Whenever I write, it is because it feels like this story inside just has to be told, whether it looks bad on paper in the beginning or not! Just getting it out is where it begins. You can always go back and edit where things are not clear to readers, that's what editors are for! Just write what is in your brain and your soul first, and it will be right.
Changing viewpoints is fine, but like Arielle said, just be clear about who is doing the talking, and it will be fine. For your story, I think it would be beneficial to do it sometime, let the reader inside both Valdor and Anabelle's heads. But it's up to you!
I think you made a mistake asking for opinions from others. As a writer you must be able to except what your heart is telling you to do. The authors I know will ignore advice from others and speak only to their hearts and souls. What others think is really immaterial.
Randy J. Cole
it's always a great idea to get the opinions of others. you have seen the story, lived the story in your head, through one set of eyes. there are sometimes things that are part of that story that you know, but those things aren't coming through in the writing. you know it's there, so you don't know it's missing, but the reader isn't seeing it.
continue to ask opinions for two reasons:
1. you can never get too much help
B. you can always ignore it
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