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Post by Madun on Aug 20, 2015 20:30:35 GMT
I've come to a point, where I have to write about a huge, and extremely important event, but it has to be written from different perspectives. Although it isn't the same thing over and over again, but different events in different places, the scenes change rapidly when I write them in chronological order, a bit too often for my taste. However, when I do it differently, for example one chapter per perspective, and let them merge in the end, things might not always make sense because they influence each other in different ways. Thus one perspective might be a spoiler for others.
What do you think is the better approach? Chronological, or entire chapters from one perspective for more continuity? I've written it chronologically so far, but I'm not sure anymore. If I do it correctly, I might even avoid spoilers altogether.
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Post by PlatinumSun on Aug 21, 2015 1:22:11 GMT
Writing several chapters from different perspectives is like a puzzle you have to put together. That seems more interesting than chronological IMO.
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Post by IceArceus on Aug 21, 2015 13:39:29 GMT
If the different perspectives are spoilers for the other perspectives you can always be more ambiguous and add more mystery in it by not including EXACTLY what's happening. Rather, for important events you could hint instead.
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Post by Madun on Aug 21, 2015 20:10:01 GMT
Thank you for your answers. It seems like the different prespectives are a bit more difficult, but potentially more rewarding. That's also a good point about mystery. Something unexpected, something that doesn't make any sense from one persepective could make people wonder what could have possibly caused it, only to find out later that it made perfect sense. Like a distant tremor, that is a huge explosion to others. I'll have to see whether it's worth in this case, but I tend towards the longer perspective parts at the moment. More opinions are always welcome, though.
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Post by Unarmed Civilian/pokemongeof on Aug 22, 2015 8:20:03 GMT
Both ways of writing it can be done well, so long as they aren't confusing. Also, to what IceArceus said, the writing could be altered to make it more ambigious.
Honestly, i would go for switiching off chapters with different perspectives.
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Post by Madun on Aug 23, 2015 20:07:04 GMT
Thanks for the answer. I remembered I actually already had a similar situation, where I also used the perspective variant, albeit it was much smaller, and I didn't consider it important enough to ask back then. In any case, I'm going for the same variant again, and if it's not that good, I can still rearrange stuff and change parts so that it fits.
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