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Following on from musings on person, I found that many people not only associate certain tenses with certain persons (first with present, third with past, whatever else) but also certain povs with certain persons.
What I'm wondering about is this: why is there such resistance to omniscient narration in fanfic? I mean the type of narration that flies in and out of various characters' heads, as found in 19th century novels and childrens' books, such as C.S. Lewis Narnia series, and where you have the feeling that there's a narrator hovering somewhere near each character's head, surreptitiously oozing her own opinions into the story?
This type of narration is very rare in fanfic. Most fanfic (and certainly my own) tends to prefer tight third person pov. (And if you've waded through my narratological analysis, you'll know that by tight third person pov I mean a homodiegetic, fixed, character-bound, internal focalisor -- haha!! *smites you with jargon* -- but I'm a bitch to jargon, and it is very precise. Although sometimes I think our own slashy jargon is more precise for our own purposes than narratologists' jargon but jargon is jargon, hooray.)
Anyway, where was I? I'm sure I was somewhere.
Yes. Pov. What kind of pov do you tend to write, and why? Why do you write tight third person or tight first person, and why do you not write omniscient narration? And do you ever intrude as the narrator, or do you stick to your focalisor / pov-character? And is there some relation between rps and pov-preference?
What I'm wondering about is this: why is there such resistance to omniscient narration in fanfic? I mean the type of narration that flies in and out of various characters' heads, as found in 19th century novels and childrens' books, such as C.S. Lewis Narnia series, and where you have the feeling that there's a narrator hovering somewhere near each character's head, surreptitiously oozing her own opinions into the story?
This type of narration is very rare in fanfic. Most fanfic (and certainly my own) tends to prefer tight third person pov. (And if you've waded through my narratological analysis, you'll know that by tight third person pov I mean a homodiegetic, fixed, character-bound, internal focalisor -- haha!! *smites you with jargon* -- but I'm a bitch to jargon, and it is very precise. Although sometimes I think our own slashy jargon is more precise for our own purposes than narratologists' jargon but jargon is jargon, hooray.)
Anyway, where was I? I'm sure I was somewhere.
Yes. Pov. What kind of pov do you tend to write, and why? Why do you write tight third person or tight first person, and why do you not write omniscient narration? And do you ever intrude as the narrator, or do you stick to your focalisor / pov-character? And is there some relation between rps and pov-preference?