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average haobin enjoyer · 3mo

idk if you've answered this before, but this question popped up in my head after finishing the most recent chapter of all of our rapture. i was wondering how you decide which events are told from which pov and if you're strategic with it. like do you ever think "ah, i wish i had written the yule ball from hanbin's pov" or "i'm going to tell this event from X's pov bc of X reason". idk if my question makes sense fjgkf

dw i havent! but this is such a good question haha i committed early on to doing alternating pov chapters so have been trying to stick to that while moving the story forward — there hasn’t been a big scene where i really want to go back and rewrite in the other pov, but there have definitely been instances where i had been very very tempted to do another split pov chapter, one of them being the first task and another being when they discovered gyuvin. i originally had something different in mind for a confrontation with gideon, but bc that chapter was with hanbin, it made it a bit tricky!

i am, maybe surprisingly maybe not so surprisingly lol, not a very big planner. so while i have a general idea of scenes and moments i want to hit down the line sometimes chapters end up not including those or i feel compelled in the moment to add a bunch of other stuff i hadn’t previously intended depending on the pov and what i feel like the characters would do at the time ? if that makes sense! and especially with the haobin scenes i love writing in both their povs for them, so i haven’t specifically tried to save moments (yule ball, them getting together, their first kiss, etc) for specific povs and just added them into the chapters that felt right. however, as the story gets more intentional with the plot in the coming chapters, i do have a few scenes that i want to write in specifically either hao or hanbin’s povs, especially bc certain people and certain events (not to give too much away heh) would only happen to one of them!

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