I was totally thinking this (and slapping my forehead) as I was writing my first response but then I hesitated. OS scene – that totally makes sense. But then I also have my IC in some situations in which his IC throughline characteristics come into play, but where the MC isn’t present. I’m not sure if this is right, by the way – I got the idea from one of @jhull’s gist exercises where I thought he was suggesting (paraphrasing) creating the IC not as someone specifically designed to impact the MC, but as an “impactful” force on those around him. So in my case the IC/protagonist is being held captive by some bad guys, and he provokes one of them to remember certain things (Memories). And he also is trying to get a message to the MC that is also memory-related. I felt inspired as I was coming up with these ideas, but I’m wondering if I’m thinking about this in the right way.
Yes, that’s exactly the feeling I’m having with the current novel I’m reading (and I guess what I’m hoping to convey in my book). Of course my IC’s throughline points are there, but I’m imagining them less as personal issues and more as things that upset and disrupt the people around him.
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But I think you should be careful about showing the actual influence, the interactions that affect the MC.
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This gets me thinking about some of the pre-Dramatica scenes that I wrote of my story … there’s some kind of intuition about when to make POV changes I was trying to get in touch with – just a feeling, but maybe this was it!
And now I’m thinking I should remember to check the PSR…
Thanks @Gregolas and @mlucas.