Donal Ryan’s Low and Quiet Sea and Toni Morrison’s Love are two favorite novels that immediately come to mind. Things are not connected nor explained in other views, meaning the other narrator is not picking up where the other left off, but has his or her own arc. Yeah, previous narrators maybe mentioned in passing and sometimes even to the extent that we are wondering—wait, does she mean him, him in the previous chapter? it’s complex and complicated and it’s like I as reader am asked to help piece the story together and I have loved it alway.
I've seen some writing partnerships where each writer handles a POV. I think then, they can go off and write their chapters individually before regrouping to with the other writer. But they've obviously planned in advance who writes which character, and what's going to happen. I've seen some impressive/scary coloured Excel spreadsheets to manage multiple narrators, too.
That’s a fantastic way to think about it—very eye opening 🙏
Donal Ryan’s Low and Quiet Sea and Toni Morrison’s Love are two favorite novels that immediately come to mind. Things are not connected nor explained in other views, meaning the other narrator is not picking up where the other left off, but has his or her own arc. Yeah, previous narrators maybe mentioned in passing and sometimes even to the extent that we are wondering—wait, does she mean him, him in the previous chapter? it’s complex and complicated and it’s like I as reader am asked to help piece the story together and I have loved it alway.
I've seen some writing partnerships where each writer handles a POV. I think then, they can go off and write their chapters individually before regrouping to with the other writer. But they've obviously planned in advance who writes which character, and what's going to happen. I've seen some impressive/scary coloured Excel spreadsheets to manage multiple narrators, too.