Reminder to self:
Your writing seems boring and predictable because
A person who has never read it before does not have this problem.
- You wrote it
- You’ve read it like eight million times.
Source
J. R. R. Tolkien said:“[The Author] makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are out in the Primary World again, looking at the abortive little Secondary World from the outside.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
Unless your target audience are people similarly displeased with the target of your ire.If you're writing a polemic towards someone or something, try to at least do a good job disguising what the targets of your ire are, so that people will have difficulty thinking "these enemies remind me of some people, I wonder who this author is specifically referring to".
Unless your target audience are people similarly displeased with the target of your ire.
So what is everyone's preference about scene POV swapping? As in when you're doing limited third person and mostly focusing on one character's perceptions and feelings, do you sometimes swap to third-person unlimited and show another character's thoughts or perceptions? Do you prefer doing just third-person unlimited? Or stick strictly to the POV character in a scene?