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First verses Third
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Aminar on August 21, 2011, 01:59:27 PM ---That's so incredibly awkward at times, it's what I'm currently working on, third person but only with knowledge a given character would have(For the most part, there is a little outside narration when necessary. Hardest thing, before a new POV character knows everyone names and your referring to characters as the male voice or the female voice with an odd accent.
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I don't see how that's hard, really. I see how it's convincingly realistic.
Gruud:
I've been handling this in a bit of an odd (or maybe a good) way.
When folks first meet, they are primarily referred to by race, or by their profession, etc. in the mind of the current POV character.
It's only after a character gets to know another character that they actually begin referring to that person by their given name.
*shrug*
seems right to me
Aminar:
--- Quote from: the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh on August 21, 2011, 11:56:21 PM ---I don't see how that's hard, really. I see how it's convincingly realistic.
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Awkward and difficult aren't especially similar, it's just weird because the reader knows the characters names and with any luck knows who you're talking about.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Aminar on August 22, 2011, 01:07:28 PM ---Awkward and difficult aren't especially similar, it's just weird because the reader knows the characters names and with any luck knows who you're talking about.
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I may be misreading what you are talking about here; if you're talking about character A describing character B when character A has only just met character B and does not yet know character B's name, how does the reader know character B's name ? Is that something set up elsewhere in the story ? I thought you were talking about writing with a single viewpoint character.
Bearracuda:
--- Quote from: Gruud on August 22, 2011, 02:05:09 AM ---I've been handling this in a bit of an odd (or maybe a good) way.
When folks first meet, they are primarily referred to by race, or by their profession, etc. in the mind of the current POV character.
It's only after a character gets to know another character that they actually begin referring to that person by their given name.
*shrug*
seems right to me
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Yeah, I love it so much when authors do that. I chuckled everytime I heard Dresden refer to "Liverspots" in Dead Beat. And that's just the one that came off the top of my head. I can't even remember all the awesome nicknames Harry assigned to people throughout the series.
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