Honestly, the best resource I have personally found with regard to writing tight 3rd-person POV is Orson Scott Card's Characters and Viewpoint, though as with all writing advice I'm sure it's not one-size-fits-all. (Card's descent into homophobia and right-wing paranoia does not retroactively render his writing advice useless, though it does mean I feel kind of weird still loving a number of his earlier books. *makes face*) Ursula Le Guin's essay "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" (in her collection The Language of the Night) is also useful, though in a narrower way -- it's focused entirely on matching one's language register to one's characters and story type.
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Date: 2017-07-17 05:22 am (UTC)Honestly, the best resource I have personally found with regard to writing tight 3rd-person POV is Orson Scott Card's Characters and Viewpoint, though as with all writing advice I'm sure it's not one-size-fits-all. (Card's descent into homophobia and right-wing paranoia does not retroactively render his writing advice useless, though it does mean I feel kind of weird still loving a number of his earlier books. *makes face*) Ursula Le Guin's essay "From Elfland to Poughkeepsie" (in her collection The Language of the Night) is also useful, though in a narrower way -- it's focused entirely on matching one's language register to one's characters and story type.