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[huckleberryjam]

So 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.

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[kay_brooke]

Hmm. Does the reader really, really need to know this information? Could they find out at the same time the hero does instead? I'm just thinking, if the book is written from the hero's point of view, it would be kind of awkward to switch to the heroine's POV or an omniscient POV just for this one thing. So is it absolutely crucial that the reader have the information before the hero does?

[huckleberryjam]

Hmm, I mean omniscient, not omnipotent, don't I? Although I suppose that would be exciting, too: "By the power of my narration, you shall FLY." "And then, Dear Reader, the story seemed to demand she turn into a fox."

But yes, I might just have her tell him stuff. It's kind of awkward, though, because it's just her daily life (it's relevant because part of the story is how she's struggling to pull herself out of utter poverty.)