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Malik replied to the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like?.Excerpt from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, without equal the greatest sci-fi portal fantasy series ever written. I've italicized... -
Malik is a site treasure. Bob Cranston went into the fish market. He thought nothing would hit the spot better than a blue spotted...
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Malik, thank you for your passion and for taking the time to share it with us. MUCH appreciated.
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Malik replied to the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like?.Nobody else was writing the books I wanted to read.
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Malik reacted to Demesnedenoir's post in the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like? with
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Third Om can be so many styles. Tolkien is fairly casual, Herbert is in your face. Dickens is one of the all-time greats for 3rd Om IMO. -
Malik replied to the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like?.And if you don't understand these delineations--if you don't know that there are this many First Person voices and at least as many...
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Malik replied to the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like?.Thank you. And to reiterate: there are SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF FIRST AND THIRD PERSON. You don't just pick one and go. The POV...
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Malik reacted to Prince of Spires's post in the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like? with Like.
I would say you have this wrong. First person is a story written in the "I" form. I did this, I did that. You are stuck in the head of...
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Malik reacted to Finchbearer's post in the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like? with Like.
Omni works best when you don’t even realise you’re reading it.
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Malik reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like? with Like.
I tend to default to 3rd Limited, in part because messing around with the reader is one of my favorite things. All hail the Unreliable...
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Malik replied to the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like?.So, hey, y'all. For those of you who don't know me, I've been here for a minute or two. I have an English degree with a dual...
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Malik replied to the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like?.All my books are in Omniscient Third Subjective. The narrator is a character, who either witnessed the story or had it told to them and...
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Malik reacted to A. E. Lowan's post in the thread What Does Good Omniscient POV look like? with Like.
It looks like god or whatever is telling the story. Think about how 3rd Limited is like having a camera inside the narrator's head. In...
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Malik reacted to Chessie's post in the thread What's the funniest research you've ever had to do for your fantasy novel? with Like.
Some of the neatest research I've done was on 1700s Russian short swords and daggers, renaissance Italian bakeries, and herbalism in the...
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Malik replied to the thread How much is too much worldbuilding?.I just plotted an entire series to cover a plot hole in my first series. Worldbuilding IS storytelling. How much worldbuilding is too...