http://mathews1.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:45:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://mathews1.wordpress.com http://mathews1.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/funny-conversation-wrichard-ford-about-eudora-welty/ http://mathews1.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/funny-conversation-wrichard-ford-about-eudora-welty/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:45:28 +0000 Novelist http://mathews1.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/funny-conversation-wrichard-ford-about-eudora-welty/ ]]> ]]> http://mathews1.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/funny-conversation-wrichard-ford-about-eudora-welty/feed/ 0 Novelist http://mathews1.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/vague-characters-in-third-person-stories/ http://mathews1.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/vague-characters-in-third-person-stories/#comments Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:28:26 +0000 Novelist http://mathews1.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/vague-characters-in-third-person-stories/ ]]> How can 3rd person the avoid vagueness that results from POV shifts?   My friend asked me to comment upon his story that had been published in a lit. journal.  The POV stayed with the primary character, ultimately the victim of a shooting, until mid-way, then suddenly switched to a witness.  POV shifted from one to the other a few times.  The characters became vague and actually merged in my mind, because they were similar in many ways, and I knew both of their thoughts.  To resolve the vagueness, I would advise him to re-write in 1st person from the victim POV only.  But, I’m sure the vagueness could be resolved in 3rd person too, but how?  Simply change the descriptions of the characters so that they look different?

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