push me off the fence

[electricalgwen]

My bigbang posting day is under two weeks away! I still have some expansion stuff to write and yet more editing, but I'm not too panicked yet. It's been really exciting seeing the artwork apieceofcake is creating!

Like many stories, mine shifts between different character POVs in different sections. There will be dividers between the sections (not just the usual 4 line blank spacing, thanks to my lovely artist!) I am undecided as to whether it is a good idea or not to identify the person in whose POV the section is written. Sometimes I like that, the cute little nametag dividers. Other times I think, meh, it's not like I couldn't figure it out, at least if the writing's any good.

So I was waffling on that and suddenly realized I haven't posted a poll in ages.

[Poll #1586222]

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Depends on the fic and the divider style. I usually like an extra line space. More than that I don't need. One's that say who the PoV is -- totally irritating.

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

I'm on the fence when it comes to POV dividers. Most of the time, it works just fine but sometimes, it just doesn't. I'm not sure if I could define why; maybe it boils down to the strength of the story itself.

[laisserais]

hi! glad to see you! i don't think you need them. your writing will totally tell the point of view. just so long as there's space (and art, yay!) between, the shifts will be obvious i think. some kind of doodle is, i think, traditional with pov shifts, yeah? like *** or ~~~~ or mel's fave: *~*~*~ :)

yay, i'm super excited to read your fic!

[dancetomato.livejournal.com]

I don't think you need to identify whose POV it is. I had no problems with POV in your fic.

SQUEEEE! Let me know if you need anything. &hearts

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

I think random *~* dividers to indicate different sections or scenes are great, but I really don't think there should be named divisions/tags/headers announcing whose POV it is. I've never seen that issue in your writing -- your descriptions and dialogue and other in-story markers are plenty to identify the POV.