POV issues

Jul. 9th, 2006 12:59 pm
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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: 2006-07-11 01:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alixtii.livejournal.com
Well, the narrator doesn't really "know" anything--it's an author's construct, nyet? If we envision the narrator as a character--and I'm not sure we inevitably do that with omniscient--then we'd probably envision her as existing after the events of the novel, like we do with a first-person narrator, so there'd be no precognition necessary.

After all, even if it is from River's point of view, there's still a narrator in some sense, as its told in third person, and the narrator "knows" what River is thinking, but it'd be odd to say the narrator is psychic.

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