Writing Multiple PoV

[Erysion]

I just have this new story idea. Person A, the first protagonist, is a Villain from the alternate timeline where he won, but the cost is too great so he time traveled to save his wife beloved who died for him.

Person B, another protagonist, is a reincarnated person who reincarnated into Person A's wife. She doesn't want to die so she distanced herself from Person A.

Person A doesn't know why Person B suddenly become cold toward him. She even ditched him for Person C, who is a Hero and Person A's mortal enemy.

The question is, how do I write their PoV? Is it okay to repeat the same event from different perspective? Or should I only switch PoV whenever the person's PoV has the biggest impact?

 

[AnonUnlimited]

Depends on novel structure. There are multiple ways it could work.

Most important thing is making it clear who is speaking if you write in 1st person. It can get confusing in 1st person that way.

Probably less confusing in 3rd person. Most important thing is get test readers to see if they can follow the story if you’re not certain.

 

[Zakuro]

Person A doesn't know why Person B suddenly become cold toward him. She even ditched him for Person C, who is a Hero and Person A's mortal enemy.

Wait. Isn't this NTR? What's up with you and your fascination with NTR?

 

[Kidd_Wadsworth]

I like writing from multiple points of view. However, no matter how well it is done, you will probably get complaints. I say go for it!

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

I would avoid repeating events unless the new perspective adds significantly to what the reader knows. Otherwise, the pov with biggest impact at the time.

 

[CarburetorThompson]

I wrote a short story where the majority of it was overlapping told from multiple povs, but chronologically most of the pov changes take place across the span of seconds since it was a realistic action focused story. So I really couldn’t say.

 

[tfes8]

I once did a 3 person multiple POV novel. I had no real complaints about the structure. https://www.scribblehub.com/series/258116/masquerades-/

 

[PotatianEmpire]

I personally would write the story mostly from the POV of one of the characters. Then do chapters later on where you get flashbacks and the POVs of the other characters. You would have an easy to follow structure. Then you could fill up important details from the other POVs. This is how many crime centered stories do it. In your case I would adapt this and make each of the POVs more subjective like an unreliable narrator.

 

[Le_ther]

I just have this new story idea. Person A, the first protagonist, is a Villain from the alternate timeline where he won, but the cost is too great so he time traveled to save his wife beloved who died for him.

Person B, another protagonist, is a reincarnated person who reincarnated into Person A's wife. She doesn't want to die so she distanced herself from Person A.

Person A doesn't know why Person B suddenly become cold toward him. She even ditched him for Person C, who is a Hero and Person A's mortal enemy.

The question is, how do I write their PoV? Is it okay to repeat the same event from different perspective? Or should I only switch PoV whenever the person's PoV has the biggest impact?

You can have like a scenario played out in one perspective then after completing the scenario at that certain person perspective you write the perspective of the other character but the scenarios play out the same but in a different viewpoint.


Thing is this would be very hard to pull and it might make your novel boring. If you want some help with this type of multiple pov you can read "Running away from the hero" where the mc makes a vary ridiculous move and after the scenario happened. The author then creates a 1-2 chapters in the perspective of the side characters affected in the scenario

 

[RepresentingCaution]

After a Person A perspective chapter, you can start a new chapter with Person B thinking about what just happened, but keep it brief to keep the story moving!