POV issues

Jul. 9th, 2006 12:59 pm
alixtii: Player from <i>Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?</i> playing the game. (Default)
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Okay, I'm not sure if the fic I'm writing right now is in omniscient POV or just from River's POV, but I suppose there isn't all that much difference, is there?

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Date: 2006-07-09 05:46 pm (UTC)
wisdomeagle: (River)
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I think there is a difference but I'm struggling to articulate what that might be, though I think the obvious point would be that an omniscient narrator's knowledge (can be) is organized according to some logic that's not neccessarily present with River's knowledge; I think there's also an aspect of forknowledge that (can be) is part of an omni-narrator's knowledge, but really I'm just struggling with digging in and really defining narration, which I've been puzzling over for a couple of days, since author != narrator != character (unless the narrator is a character), and both the author and the narrator impose story upon events in a way that most characters don't.

I also think omniscient third-person narrators usually become characters, themselves, because straight omniscience is just impossible to convey; there must be some order, bias, etc, and that bias becomes the seed of a new perspective that's just as blind in its way as limited-third.

Must clean room now. Ick. Happy Sunday, though! :)

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Date: 2006-07-10 12:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alixtii.livejournal.com
Well, your omniscient narrators become characters, and wonderfully and bneautifully so, and I love that about your fics. But I'm not sure that it necessarily happens in any meaningful way--yes, the narrator in a Tom Clancy novel is imposing order/bias, but the mock-objectivity doesn't really draw attention to itself.

And I think that's really what is at stake at here--River's presence means I can't head-jump in the middle of a scene without drawing attention to the shift the way I would if I suddenly switched from being in Kaylee's head to being in Inara's. It's not really a question of constructing a coherent overall voice, although in another fic I could totally do that and it'd be cool.

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