Subtext tip for IC throughline

[mlucas]

@GetSchwifty

It isn’t that their evil, or a villain, or antagonist – but there’s something in them that makes you resist identifying them them.

Yes, definitely. I found this when writing my last novel when there were a lot of scene’s written from IC’s POV. I could understand her and get into her head to a certain degree, but there was a kind of enigmatic nature to her that made me feel like I could never truly know her all the way; that she could always surprise me. I wrote about that in this old post:

@mlucas

In the novel I’m working on now, I’m writing scenes with the IC’s POV, and really enjoying them. I sort of feel like the IC is a bit of a “black box”. She has personal issues and I can mention them and show her thoughts and feelings in her POV narration, but there is a level of depth that I don’t need or want to go to. There’s an ineffable, unknowable quality even when in her shoes. I think her personal issues are personal to serve the storytelling, but not so personal structurally, if that makes any sense.