Post History
Remember that terms like "third person limited" are not meant to be jails. They are descriptive. If it works for your story to have one (or a handful) of scenes outside your protagonists' viewpoi...
Answer
#4: Attribution notice removed
by
System
·
2019-12-13T12:00:44Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/27904 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#3: Attribution notice added
by
System
·
2019-12-08T06:25:36Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/27904 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
Remember that terms like "third person limited" are not meant to be jails. They are descriptive. If it works for your story to have one (or a handful) of scenes outside your protagonists' viewpoint, go right ahead and do it. No editor will break down your door with an giant eraser to make you change anything. The Harry Potter series is told from Harry's POV, _except_ two opening chapters (books 1 and 6, IIRC) which are just third-person limited, focusing on other people. That doesn't negate the rest of the tale. In terms of flow, you can present it as a short chapter, an interlude, a prologue, or some other form of break so the reader knows that the "camera" is moving outside what's been presented before, and this is something special happening at the same time somewhere else.
#1: Imported from external source
by
System
·
2017-05-04T14:35:34Z (over 7 years ago)
Original score: 5