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How do I handle different PoVs, at different times and places, each dealing with the same event?
Can you give it a frame story that gives a coherent overarching narrative that these all stories fit into organically? For instance, the POV characters all meet up in a temporary refuge after the ...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T10:00:26Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/39600 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Chris Sunami
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2019-12-08T10:00:26Z (almost 5 years ago)
Can you give it **a [frame story](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_story) that gives a coherent overarching narrative that these all stories fit into** organically? For instance, the POV characters all meet up in a temporary refuge after the fire, and share their experiences? Or, conversely, a reporter comes to interview them, years later? Although **the frame story might just serve to structure the main stories, it could also interact with them**. For example, perhaps the teenage girl becomes your main narrator. She meets the housewife early on, when they both make it to a church being used as shelter for people displaced by the fire. The girl keeps searching for her mother. Later, at another shelter, she meets the housewife's husband. She is able to put the pieces together, and reunite that couple. When they make it back to the first shelter, the girl's mother is also there.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-10-23T14:24:48Z (about 6 years ago)
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