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Re: Do you collaborate when writing?
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Wow, that's awesome. Can you explain to me what headhopping is?Ventis wrote:I do both. I write my original short stories, and work on my original novel alone. But I also co-write fanfiction with a good friend. We divided our characters, she writes one guy, I the other two. It has some advantages - the dialogue feels more natural, because we don't know in advance what the other character will say, so they don't say things just for plot reasons. It took some time to synchronize our writing, styles, and learn how to avoid headhopping, but we also have two awesome beta-readers who always tell us if something feels odd. It's been a great writing practice, we both learned a lot.
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Headhopping is the omniscient narrator done bad. It's a sudden change of different POVs within one scene. It can be done, but it's easy to get it wrong and end with jarring, choppy sequences (usually paragraphs) with different POV.zeldas_lullaby wrote: Wow, that's awesome. Can you explain to me what headhopping is?
For example, a story is about a girl who's leaving to study abroad, and about her life there. The whole scene about her departure is from his POV. Then, just before the end of the scene, in the middle of a paragraph, there's a sudden switch to the girl's father POV, to show how worried he is and how much he loves her. Then there's another sudden switch to the girl. And then the father is never mentioned again till the end of the story. That's head hopping.
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Wow, thanks a lot. that was a great explanation!
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