Character pov + omniscient pov hybrid for multiple mc's

[ConcubusBunny]

Hello my lovely guys, gals and enby pals I want to your insight on something, I wanted to creat a multiple mc story but lack of interesting stories or advice has helped and no trying to follow a story with a huge cast of characters hasn't helped me in this regard either, cause it just didn't feel the same way a multiple mc story would. So I thought of an idea I use a character pov and omniscient pov and mash them together switching from focus character to focus character in importance of their role on the story.
Also some chapters will have two, three or four focus characters that I'll follow and put more attention to and switch around like hot potato with the characters.

 

[ElijahRyne]

Hello my lovely gays, gals and enby pals I want to your insight on something, I wanted to creat a multiple mc story but lack of interesting stories or advice has helped and no trying to follow a story with a huge cast of characters hasn't helped me in this regard either, cause it just didn't feel the same way a multiple mc story would. So I thought of an idea I use a character pov and omniscient pov and mash them together switching from focus character to focus character in importance of their role on the story.
Also some chapters will have two, three or four focus characters that I'll follow and put more attention to and switch around like hot potato with the characters.

If I were writing I would not break POV in the middle of a chapter without warning, and preferably any time you switch POV. For example the first 2 or so chapters you write are in Narrator POV, and the 3rd is in a characters POV. You can start the chapter by saying something like

Chapter 3
Character POV

Then when you switch back to narrator POV:

Chapter 6
Narrator POV

 

[atgongumerki]

It is hard to do well, I for one failed at doing something similar.

But don't let us discourage you, it might just become the next big hit because of your execution.

 

[ConcubusBunny]

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If I were writing I would not break POV in the middle of a chapter without warning, and preferably any time you switch POV. For example the first 2 or so chapters you write are in Narrator POV, and the 3rd is in a characters POV. You can start the chapter by saying something like

Chapter 3
Character POV

Then when you switch back to narrator POV:

Chapter 6
Narrator POV

Thanks for that I was thinking more of tell things from the focus MC's perspective but in a narrative way like if they notice they are being ambush but their friends didn't I won't say something the mc knew they were about to be ambush unfortunately their friends didn't, I'll go with the mc noticed that an ambush was coming they looked back wondering if their friends did too, but by the care free expression plastered on their faces it was clear that they didn't

 

[Jemini]

I've written my story with a single main character, but plenty of alternate POV chapters littered throughout. When viewing it from the POV of my MC, I will use the 1st person perspective.

When I head-jump to another character, in order to emphasize that we are not in the head of the MC anymore, I will switch to something called the "3rd person deep" POV. That is to say, it uses 3rd person terms, but it still avoids the use of omniscience. And all information that is relayed is only from the perspective of the focus character.

 

[UnattainableBlueRose]

Hello my lovely guys, gals and enby pals I want to your insight on something, I wanted to creat a multiple mc story but lack of interesting stories or advice has helped and no trying to follow a story with a huge cast of characters hasn't helped me in this regard either, cause it just didn't feel the same way a multiple mc story would. So I thought of an idea I use a character pov and omniscient pov and mash them together switching from focus character to focus character in importance of their role on the story.
Also some chapters will have two, three or four focus characters that I'll follow and put more attention to and switch around like hot potato with the characters.

This is something im trying to do with my story as well lol its hard to do it well but I'm sure you can do it! Good luck (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

 

[Akivien]

Hello my lovely guys, gals and enby pals I want to your insight on something, I wanted to creat a multiple mc story but lack of interesting stories or advice has helped and no trying to follow a story with a huge cast of characters hasn't helped me in this regard either, cause it just didn't feel the same way a multiple mc story would. So I thought of an idea I use a character pov and omniscient pov and mash them together switching from focus character to focus character in importance of their role on the story.
Also some chapters will have two, three or four focus characters that I'll follow and put more attention to and switch around like hot potato with the characters.

Do try to spread the povs like a video, instead of the same picture with different povs, i mean dont make four pov of dif characters living the same day and how it went for them but pov 1 day1 pov 2 day2 pov3 day3 so the story advence and not get stuck in the same place way too long.
For exemple if you have a fight between mcs make it continues, like a video, for exemple mc1 takes the first 25 sec then mc2 takes 25 sec that came after.

In conclusion make the pov's snowball one w another.
That's my advice, also i never worte something like dif mcs story so

 

[BlackKnightX]

Hello my lovely guys, gals and enby pals I want to your insight on something, I wanted to creat a multiple mc story but lack of interesting stories or advice has helped and no trying to follow a story with a huge cast of characters hasn't helped me in this regard either, cause it just didn't feel the same way a multiple mc story would. So I thought of an idea I use a character pov and omniscient pov and mash them together switching from focus character to focus character in importance of their role on the story.
Also some chapters will have two, three or four focus characters that I'll follow and put more attention to and switch around like hot potato with the characters.

I heard some advice saying that head-hopping is bad, as it’s gonna pull reader out of the immersion. But for me as a reader, I never find it distracting at all.

I always think of it like I’m watching an anime when I read, so head-hopping isn’t something new for me. Like, instead of writing one POV at a time, hopping the POVs all at once will move the story along quickly.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

I recommend sticking with omniscient pov the whole way.

 

[DarkGodEM]

Hello my lovely guys, gals and enby pals I want to your insight on something, I wanted to creat a multiple mc story but lack of interesting stories or advice has helped and no trying to follow a story with a huge cast of characters hasn't helped me in this regard either, cause it just didn't feel the same way a multiple mc story would. So I thought of an idea I use a character pov and omniscient pov and mash them together switching from focus character to focus character in importance of their role on the story.
Also some chapters will have two, three or four focus characters that I'll follow and put more attention to and switch around like hot potato with the characters.

I did that before
10/10 DO NOT RECOMMEND!

World-ruling Dungeon has precisely that POV/Narrator switch and is a nightmare at times

 

[ConcubusBunny]

I did that before
10/10 DO NOT RECOMMEND!

World-ruling Dungeon has precisely that POV/Narrator switch and is a nightmare at times

Thanks but it's not exactly pov of the focus character it's still from a narrative style of writing just in regards to the focus character, something like the camera will be focused on them and all description and emotion of that scene will be in regards of the focus character