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Bibliopro:
Thanks for all the help y'all!

I will definitely take the points into consideration and try to make this work out! :D

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
in response to me about bits of not-in-first not feeling like not playing fair


--- Quote from: Bibliopro on January 31, 2008, 07:47:52 PM ---Why do you feel that way?  Just curious.

--- End quote ---

A single first is a certain distance from the story - a pretty short distance.  Most thirds are farther away than most firsts.  Your information problem here is a problem inherent to the distance your POV is from the story.  Putting in another POV just to get that information in, a third-person POV at a greater distance out from the story, is taking the easy option in a way that drastically changes the story shape, in a way that it wouldn't be if you were, oh, writing a great big GRRM-style epic with twelve viewpoint characters.

Chapter-starting snippets work around this for me, if they are, for example, bits of local guidebook or some such included in a medium-distance third or a memoir-type first.  In a headlong or braindump first, they are again breaking the distance everything else is from the story, and that's why I think of them as cheating.

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