An Editor's Take on Deep POV

[pameladlloyd]

Today's edittorrent post, Jennifer is right... deep POV and "head words", discusses putting the emphasis on a POV character's realization of a feeling or thought.

As I'm one of those writers who often edits out the "extra" words, I found edittorrent's take on this interesting, since whichever editor wrote today's post doesn't feel it's necessary to avoid the thought process information, agreeing with Jennifer that there is a difference between "[h]e wanted to stay" and "he 'realized' he wanted to stay".

Of course, like any other word or phrase, you don't want to use "s/he realized" too often, either.

Comments

[baltimoreandme.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed reading the edittorrent post; POV is something I've been obsessing over myself, recently - not only how much "thought process" to include but also how to get the reader to realize things that the character might not.

(also, I should add - I'm a friend of handworn's, which is how I arrived at your journal)

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Welcome! :)

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

I should add that I think that writing a single POV story in such a way that the reader is aware of things the character is not, is incredibly difficult.