I had a question about Point of View (POV). I generally stick to 3rd person limited, other than the beginning of the novel, where its omniscient (so as to help establish the storyline).
Right now, my POV focuses mainly on the protagonist, although during certain scenes (such as battles), the POV switches around from time to time so that readers can see what some of the more important characters are doing/saying (such as a conversation between two high ranking enemy admirals right before a fight breaks out between them, or the hero's friends protecting civilians from the bad guys a few moments prior to the hero arriving at the scene). I still focus mostly on the hero, but the only "outside POV" that readers see is stuff that's occurring immediately around the hero, not something occurring on the other side of the world (or galaxy in my story).
Can I get away with doing this? Or am I going to have to stick specifically to only the hero's POV (note that I don't want to do first person, as it would get boring pretty fast, since the hero isn't always at the scene of something interesting happening, and he doesn't neccessarily always arrive on time either, for storyline reasons).
Right now, my POV focuses mainly on the protagonist, although during certain scenes (such as battles), the POV switches around from time to time so that readers can see what some of the more important characters are doing/saying (such as a conversation between two high ranking enemy admirals right before a fight breaks out between them, or the hero's friends protecting civilians from the bad guys a few moments prior to the hero arriving at the scene). I still focus mostly on the hero, but the only "outside POV" that readers see is stuff that's occurring immediately around the hero, not something occurring on the other side of the world (or galaxy in my story).
Can I get away with doing this? Or am I going to have to stick specifically to only the hero's POV (note that I don't want to do first person, as it would get boring pretty fast, since the hero isn't always at the scene of something interesting happening, and he doesn't neccessarily always arrive on time either, for storyline reasons).