Hi community of awesome, I'm Ava Jae and this is bookishpixie.
So writing multi-POV (point of view) novels creates a host of challenges, but one of the
most common complaints about multi-POV novels that didn't work is that the POV characters sound the same.
This is a bit of a challenge when you're writing, not just a multi-POV novel, but any novel,
because you're one person, but when you're writing a book, you're writing from the perspective
of people who aren't you, and when you're writing a multi-POV novel, you're writing
from the perspectives of many people who aren't you.
And people who aren't each other, either.
So the key here to writing perspectives that sound different is getting to know each of your POV characters.
Start with considering how each of your POV characters see the world.
Voice is more than just word choice, it's also observation.
It's filtering the world through a character's perspective.
It's what they notice when they walk into a room, what they think as certain things
happen, etc.
Consider each of your characters backgrounds and how that affects the way they speak and
the way they see the world.
So let's look at an example that I can talk about from experience, my debut, BEYOND THE RED.
BEYOND THE RED is a dual-POV novel told from the perspectives of Kora and Eros.
So Kora is a queen raised in luxury, and Eros is a nomad living with humans who've been
perpetually running for their lives.
Their level of education, the way they view things, the observations they make, etc, are
all radically different because they come from drastically different backgrounds.
So if Kora and Eros walk into the same room, they're going to see it completely differently.
A room that to Eros might remind him of home and make him feel comfortable and relaxed,
might to Kora be completely unimpressive.
And vice versa, a room that to Kora might be normal and remind her of home and make
her feel comfortable, might to Eros seem gaudy, and overblown, and ostentatious.
Word choice, of course, is also important, but for me I tend to focus on that part in revisions.
I usually have a general sense of the way a character speaks when going into the first
draft so, when writing BEYOND THE RED for example, I knew from the beginning that Kora
had a higher level of education than Eros, and was raised in a more formal, stricter setting.
So the way that she speaks is more formal than the way Eros does.
When time comes for that, I like to make a list of words, or phrases, or stylistic things
that affect the way a character speaks, and then make sure that only one character is using them.
So, Eros for example starts a lot of sentences by dropping the subject, so he doesn't say
"I" sometimes, for example, so that was something I had to make sure that only he was doing
and Kora wasn't doing because that was stylistically his.
And he also uses a lot of slang that she doesn't use, and vice versa, she uses slang that he doesn't use.
So at the end of the day, when done correctly, when you put _all_ of that together, you will
end up with very distinct POV characters.
So that's what I've got for today!
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