POV issues are a real sticky problem for me at present. Then I read this terrific post about 'floating POV' which made so much sense.
http://ffnp.blogspot.com/2010/11/its-not-just-point-of-view.html
Omniscient 3rd person POV sneaks into my work all the time, particularly in "Hathe", the book I'm currently editing. And while on the one hand, I have a distinct mistrust of writing ideologies that set limits on the techniques an author can use - the proverbial insistence on using deep 3rd person that pervades present day genre fiction, in order to make the story a page turner - this idea of a 'floating POV' really made sense to me. Basically it seems to be what happens when the newbie author doesn't really know who is telling the story at any given point in time. And not knowing what you're doing or why you are doing it is shoddy storytelling in anyone's book.
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