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I seem to enjoy finding a writing challenge in either structure or convention or roaming POV’s or something… and now as I’m thinking about my next novel, I’m playing around with this O-pov in my head. Good grief!! Look what you’ve done Rachel! Haha!

And Pulp Fiction is one of my all time favourites! I can see the omniscient in it now you say it.

It makes a lot of sense to give that a name. And it's helpful too. It's pretty cool to have such clarity around it. Jeez, I think that would be really hard to write. Hard but fun maybe?? I was wondering what screenplays might be omniscient, as...

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Do you think it's a real thing? Like a known industry thing? I'd never heard of it either, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. haha!

I just heard her explain it on another video. It's like how GRR Martin goes every chapter to a new protag and just keeps rotating through them. Didn't know that had a name!

I just got added to the thread, but thank you :)

George Eliot was very good at omniscient. She would use it as a tool for political or social comparisons. But she wrote way back when women had to use male pseudonyms to publish anything.

This is the link, @Nikky Lee, but Jonny will need to add you. Do you want me to PM mine and Laura's pieces? https://colony.litopia.com/threads/huddle-south-november-5th-submissions-questions-and-zoom-link.16509/#post-180273

It'd be difficult. The start of The Book Thief is a classic example where you really feel the narrator that AM mentions. The narrator is Death. I'd never heard of rotating third until this and I've done a deep dive for a few years of omniscient.

I suspect both??

Really interesting, thanks for posting @RK Wallis . It did clear up a few things for me. Like the difference between omniscient and rotating close 3rd. I’ve not read many omniscient books, but never been a big fan of the ones I’ve read. Dune is...

Omniscient is difficult to get right, but when it works, it's a good read. Dickens is the classic example, but my favourite author is John Irving, and he writes omniscient so well. He has a new novel coming out this week. It's a shame writers...

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