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Do you analyze structure and technique in other writer’s work?
I re-started Making Money last night, and did give some serious thought to how Pratchett 'head hops' (a 'rule' says you shouldn't, though it actually says "you should only do it well").
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It starts with Moist climbing, then switches POV to some coachmen chasing him, then back to him again.
It works because he directs it like a movie, there's an ambiguity in the first part and the middle is a highly limited transition to figuring out you've been watching Moist all along, breaking into his own building for kicks. He's not referred to by name, though it's probably obvious even if you haven't read it before.
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Which is a real contrast to Dune, where Herbert jumps around people at such a chaotic pace that I'm surprised people don't raise it as a problem much more frequently. Though it doesn't come across as a "mistake" as much as an extreme stylised choice to have an omniscient narrator -- which used to be much more fashionable, and we're simply less used to it now.
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