I ran into the juggling-multiple-viewpoints tapdance around book 4 of my Merchant Princes series and discovered to my horror I was juggling 12 PoVs in tight third person.
Coincidentally, this is when I switched to writing with Scrivener. My first job was to tear the novel into tiny scene-sized shreds and organize them ... whereupon it became glaringly clear that while I still needed all 12 viewpoints at one stage or another, the action was all taking place more or less equally in three different parallel universes/locations. So then I re-structured everything using alternating locations as the organizational guide, rather than narrative viewpoint ... and suddenly it all fell into place.
Now it sounds like you've got two locations in play -- possibly more, but possibly not enough for you to try to use location as a guide instead of viewpoint. But are there other thematic underlying meters that you could use?
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Date: 2015-11-17 08:43 pm (UTC)Coincidentally, this is when I switched to writing with Scrivener. My first job was to tear the novel into tiny scene-sized shreds and organize them ... whereupon it became glaringly clear that while I still needed all 12 viewpoints at one stage or another, the action was all taking place more or less equally in three different parallel universes/locations. So then I re-structured everything using alternating locations as the organizational guide, rather than narrative viewpoint ... and suddenly it all fell into place.
Now it sounds like you've got two locations in play -- possibly more, but possibly not enough for you to try to use location as a guide instead of viewpoint. But are there other thematic underlying meters that you could use?