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Hi all--
I ran into a problem re: POV for a story I'm currently outlining.
I kind of want the story to be narrated by this woman's neighbor, to include the neighbor's observations about the woman. I want to do this because the woman the neighbor watches wants to be someone who seems so very perfect from the outside--it's all about external observation upon her. So I thought it would be cool to show someone looking at her literally through a window and still picking up all these insights about her.
However, there are a lot of things that I want to include as part of this woman's characterization that there's no way her neighbor could know. These things include feelings, moments from her past, stray thoughts.
Is there a way to have it both ways?
I ran into a problem re: POV for a story I'm currently outlining.
I kind of want the story to be narrated by this woman's neighbor, to include the neighbor's observations about the woman. I want to do this because the woman the neighbor watches wants to be someone who seems so very perfect from the outside--it's all about external observation upon her. So I thought it would be cool to show someone looking at her literally through a window and still picking up all these insights about her.
However, there are a lot of things that I want to include as part of this woman's characterization that there's no way her neighbor could know. These things include feelings, moments from her past, stray thoughts.
Is there a way to have it both ways?