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When you're writing in the third person, it's easy to end up head-hopping. This is when you move from one person’s perspective to another, without quite meaning to. It’s not a deliberate perspective shift, at the end of a scene or at some natural break. Instead, it’s like the point of... The post Do You Head-Hop? Getting Third Person Point of View Right first appeared on Aliventures.| Aliventures
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