Craft Chat Writing omniscient?

[RK Wallis]

Head hopping and don't understand how that affects the reader?

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[Sedayne]

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 are being discouraged from omniscient POV. Provided we don't mistake it for what it isn't, shouldn't we try it at least as a writing exercise? (That said, I haven't written anything in omniscient POV yet myself.)

Is it that nobody wants to read it, or is it just too difficult for most writers to master?