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Yes, in the chapter heading and no tranistion text | 15 | 26.79% | |
Yes, in the chapter heading and also with transition text | 3 | 5.36% | |
No in the chapter heading, but yes in the transition text | 7 | 12.50% | |
Does not matter, either/both works for me. | 31 | 55.36% | |
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11-28-2012, 01:26 PM | #16 |
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Chapter 1: Joe Chapter 2: Diane Chapter 3: Joe Chapter 4: Joe Chapter 5: Joe Chapter 6: Mike Chapter 7: Mike Chapter 8: Mike Chapter 9: Diane Something like that as the "name" of the chapter that would show up in the TOC and the heading of the chapter would look like this Quote:
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11-29-2012, 08:57 AM | #18 |
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Spoke to soon.. the "put it in the header" crowd is growing. Hmm.
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Sue Grafton always does first-person and it makes the stories seem more real to me. But again, there's only one main character. There's never any question who the "I" is. |
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Barbara Kingsolver uses multiple 1st person POV in her book Poisonwood Bible. It's divided into "books" and each starts with the mum's POV, then cycles through the daughters, often giving multiple sections to some of them.
Early in the book, when the reader's still getting used to the voices of each of the speakers, having the names in the headings helps. Though I found that partway through it, I had enough sense of the voices, I mentally skipped reading the headings, though they were there if I needed them. As others say, it's a matter of clarity, and headings seems to be a very obvious way to make it clear without having to try to work the name of the POV character into the first paragraph or so of each section. |
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As mentioned, GRRM uses it in the chapter heading to good effect.
It really depends on the book and the writer. It's about clear communication. There are some arguments to be made for the reader not to have a clear delineation in this shift in perspective, depending on the nature of the story. I say: do whatever works for the story. If no headings gets in the way of the story, use headings. If no headings adds to or helps the story in some way, don't use them. If it really doesn't matter to what you are trying to communicate, I'd default to using them as some readers may find them handy and the others will just glide past them. |
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I am starting to lean this way. There are some chapters where I do not want the reader to know, but I can work around that.
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Just bumping this to see if they are any more votes out there...
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