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Q&A How important is it for multiple POVs to run chronologically?

The way I am currently designing a story with three distinct POVs. An issue I am running into, however, is that one of these has much more to do in the first third than the other two while having l...

5 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Weckar E.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T12:22:46Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar Weckar E.‭ · 2019-12-08T12:22:46Z (almost 5 years ago)
The way I am currently designing a story with three distinct POVs. An issue I am running into, however, is that one of these has much more to do in the first third than the other two while having less to do later.

Because of this, I am considering not running the POVs chronologically next to each other, even though they do (peripherally) interact.

Is there any good advice on how to do this, or why not to do it, and examples of published books that have pulled this off either well or badly?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-07-03T14:50:58Z (over 5 years ago)
Original score: 16