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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Changing perspectives by chapter--that is, Chapter 1 is written in the "voice" of one character; Chapter 2 in the voice of another character, Chapter 3, etc. There are a lot of novels that employ this technique, and IMO, it's very hard to do well. Most don't succeed all the way, and you have chapters either sounding too similar to each other or one character gets the short end of the stick and is underdeveloped. So many fiction authors do this nowadays that it feels like a gimmick. Same thing with jumps forward and backward in time. This is another technique that's really hard to do well without confusing the reader, and the past few books I've read lately that've done this have fallen short. [/quote] +1 I am generally okay with this if the book is a beach read. I agree that it is hard to do well. [/quote]
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