All I know about books is by reading them, so I've got lots of questions. Can I ask one about POV in a children's book please?
I understand that you should write from one character's POV consistently. How does that work if you need to tell parts of the story where he/she isn't there? For example in a Famous Five type book without one particular central character who's in every scene. I suppose said scene could be written when the incident is mentioned to the central character, but that could get tedious in a full book. Even in the Harry Potter books, said to be from Harry's POV, there are scenes with Voldemort and his gang etc that Harry wasn't privy to. So I don't really understand the rule.
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Complete novice—help with POV
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Dobble · 16/05/2014 14:46
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