[WIP Wednesday] 2019-11-20

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Well, would you look at that? It's time for another
WIP WEDNESDAY!



Let's see those sexy snippets and that fabulous fanart, everyone! Ask your questions, get some feedback, flail at each other about ideas, whatever!

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How do you pin down your POV?

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Alright, so. I'm getting ready to dig into my fill for the ddsherman exchange—which I am so excited about, seriously—and while I have my concept pretty well thought through, I'm having trouble pinning down which character POV I want to do it in. Obviously I can't give many details, given the nature of the project, but I'm curious if y'all have any tricks for deciding on character POV when one doesn't immediately rise to the top? Usually when I'm getting started on a story there's a certain angle that will feel right, but this one is tempting me from a few different angles and I don't want to let my indecision trip up whatever momentum I may be able to get going. All thoughts and advice are appreciated. :)

Re: How do you pin down your POV?

[slightlytookish]

Usually a POV just seems right, but there have been a few times that I started writing from one POV, found it wasn't working, switched to the other POV and it was much better. So I guess I'd say trial and error, which isn't very helpful :D

In one fic for another fandom, I knew from the beginning that I wanted to use the POVs of both main characters, so each section changed POV (and I gave each section its own chapter for clarity). Maybe alternating POVs would work for your fic too?

Re: How do you pin down your POV?

[arwen88]

I'm with Tookish on this. Sometimes changing POV is what does the trick. Personally I'm a big fan of alternating POVs.

Re: How do you pin down your POV?

[thrillingdetectivetales]

Trial and error is basically what I'm foreseeing, lol. ;P

Alternating POVs is definitely another option, as you and arwen88 have said. I always get weird with alternating POVs, though. Like I get super caught up in whether it's balanced between the two perspectives, so idk. Plus it's harder for me to maintain a consistent character voice when jumping back and forth like that, but who knows! Maybe I'll try it and that will totally solve the problem, lol.

Re: How do you pin down your POV?

[muccamukk]

I usually pick PoV of the person who knows the least, if that makes sense. So then part of the story is them finding out. Though PoV of the person keeping the secret is also fun, but generally I tend to like the almost outsider PoV on the other person's issues.

Re: How do you pin down your POV?

[thrillingdetectivetales]

That makes a lot of sense! I guess I could try figuring out what I feel like exploring with the story, too. Like, both characters are inhabiting the same set of narrative actions but one angle would allow for exploration of like [subject A redacted] while the other would probably naturally lean more toward [subject B redacted], y'know?

Also good advice~

Re: How do you pin down your POV?

[muccamukk]

That makes sense to me. At which point, I guess it's which very important social issue to you want to explore through smut?