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May. 9th, 2012 03:39 pmSo I'm writing this Romance. It involves, among other things, a bit of a culture clash--the protagonists have a hard time figuring each other out, and there's an assumption of contempt on both their parts. It's written from the hero's point of view, but there's information I feel I need to give the reader that the hero doesn't know. But I really don't want the reader to know what the heroine is thinking--a big part of the humor is the low-level bewilderment of the increasingly smitten hero, and I want the reader to share in his gradual discovery. So do I do it from her point of view and just leave out what she thinks of him? I could just not make it come up, but I think if I was a reader I would really notice the omission. Do I zoom out and talk about her from an omnipotent narrator's POV? The problem with that is it's a very close-up sort of story, very heavy on the dialogue, so it would be a big shift.
Bah.
Bah.