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Steerpike

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Yeah, I don't get the negative feelings toward head hopping either. Did no one read Dune? Narnia?

Head-hopping is fine, so long as it is done well. I think much of the negative connotation around it comes from so many beginning authors who stumble into it inadvertently, or if they do realize what they're doing they just do it badly. You can find skilled writers who head-hop within paragraphs or even sentences (see Virginia Woolf), but most POV changes I've seen in genre fiction come at a chapter or section break.
 
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