In response to the question: When picking points of view for your fiction, what do you consider? Is there any rules about combining points of view in a longer piece? Any limitation to the number of narrators?
For the most part, my default POV is third person limited, and I like to stick with one main narrator throughout the story. As it is, I like to play around with POV, and switch narrators on occasion. I consider what the story would look like from each perspective, and I attempt to write a chapter in each POV that I am seriously considering. If I like it better in first person, then first person it is. If I like it better in third, then it is third. Simple as that.
As for rules, if the piece is started in first person, it stays first person. It can switch narrators, but not from first to third.
I don't like to put limits on anything. Especially writing techniches. Some very classic books have had dozens of different narrators. However, I usually only write a few narrators if I change narrators at all.
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