
508. Maureen McHugh, author of After the Apocalypse and Mothers and Other Monsters
Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast
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Will Wea Reviewed Frank Herbert's Doone a in the Last Year or Two?
i don't like head hopping, but i was forced to concede in that scene. There's no way to write this scene without all the head hopping,. It's just so complicated, what's going on with all the characters. I think the biggest problem with head hopping for most people is a, you either have to make sure that when you head hop, you instantly anchor the read in whatever perspective they're in. And or you can be like the female man a joanna russ's book, which shifts points of view sometimes two or three times in a paragraph and you spend a lot of time playing catch up.
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