Tutorial Writers' Wretreat or Crytics' Crypt? (love needed)

Yeah, what I'm meaning is: the first three books were a blast, and were pubished in a short amount of time.
You can see clearly the passion of the writer for the work he's doing.
In the following books, the passion was constantly diminishing. When you love to do something, when you have ideas, nothing stops you to put them in practice…. yeah, you can be distracted by other things or duties, but you won't postpone them for years. If you do, deep inside you are no more interested in them. And forced thing are forced, there's a limit to the amount of stuff you can be forced to do, especially if you're a rich, old man.

 

I had the privilege to listen to a lecture Kurt Vonnegut made in person roughly 20 years ago (he wasn't talking about this but I still liked it). He was a national treasure.

 

Don't listen to them.
mesoamerican civilization of giant reptile wizards is the way to go.

 

It's a interesting take. Yeah, the fear to be judged and don't be able to live up to the high standards set by yourself... could be another factor.

That's true to a certain point, however a character as Jamie Lannister is anything but black / white

 

Agree. Especially the Lannisters are in between for me. But so are Varys, Daenerys, the Starks, the guys and gals from the south, even some of the Greyjoys and Littlefinger.
None of them are totally good or evil. At least not in the books. In the show it is more clear for some of them.

 

OK, good to know.
If you want, i can delete my question in the "Gurls & Gunz" thread, so it will remain fully dedicated to your story.

 

Other Youtube channels that talk about the craft of writing might be more entertainingly presented, I think Literature Devil is the smartest one.

 

Third person omniscient means an all knowing narrator tells the story from a God's eye view occasionally entering the consciousness of one or more characters.

I never heard of head hopping until you mentioned, so I looked it up online.

"Head hopping" refers to the practice of changing from the point of view of one character to another character, in the middle of a scene.


Effectively this is a special type of third person omniscient and/or first person limited.

There seems to be a debate online on head hopping. The debate is whether a writer should never use head hopping or whether a writer should rarely use head hopping.

Generally speaking, head hopping is viewed as a sloppy or hack writing technique. Now, I don't believe that rules are meant to be broken in literature but I do believe a skilled writer can do great things by subverting writing rules carefully.

For instance, deus ex machina should generally be avoided, but in my opinion One Punch Man is a brilliant show/manga and the titular character is a walking breathing deus ex machina. But a writer shouldn't break writing convention just to be edgy, there needs to be an artistic vision and plan behind it.

I don't know how or when "head hopping" would be a good idea, but I'm sure a skilled writer could come up with a way to do it. So I'm in the camp that head hopping should be avoided.

I cannot recall a single instance of head hopping on L-O. That doesn't mean it never happened, just that if it occurred it wasn't memorable. After all, since I never heard of "head hopping" I wouldn't have known to look for it right?

I did kind of have head hopping before in some of my stories, BUT this was technically telepathic POV characters intruding on the minds of other people. This was not an omniscient narrator switching character minds.

Many writers on L-O, myself included have written many stories ranging from okay to excellent with shifting POV characters, but when the character POV switches, there is a clear scene transition.

Sometimes the scenes are very short, but the scenes are still distinct.