Meredith Mansfield, Author

As an epic fantasy, the DUAL MAGICS series has several POV characters. (Without looking, I believe there are three antagonist characters who carry some part of the story that the protagonists can’t know–yet–but that the reader should know. Those chapters are few and far between, but necessary. And four protagonist characters who have the focus at various times, either because they’re separated physically, or because they are either the driving force or the most affected by what happens in that chapter.)

Sometimes–often–more than one POV character is present in any one scene, and I have to decide which of them will have the POV for that scene. Sometimes, I guess wrong and have to backtrack. That happened last week in the first draft of WAR OF MAGIC.

I picked one character because something was to happen at the end of that chapter that would need to be in that character’s POV. But I was having way more trouble with the chapter than I should. And I realized I’d picked wrong. Another character (the main character) needed to be the focus of that chapter and the pivotal scene (or two) that needs to be told from the other character’s POV just needs to be it’s own short chapter.

Once I figured that out–and got a little uninterrupted writing time–things fell into place and the story is proceeding well again.