What odd writing styles and POV's have you come across or used?

[ErriElistor]

I have never really read books that are beyond the norm in terms of how they're written or the POV. I wrote a short story about two years ago now from the perspective of security cameras. I did this not long before an English class where the teacher told us about how past students had done the creative writing assignment from the POV of a building and at the time and ever since have wondered what other people have done to make their writing different and show the situation in ways they otherwise can't.

I'd love to read anything people have come up with because it's interesting to see how others do something so differently, especially when it's something completely unexpected or could be considered excessive or unconventional. So if you come up with something or can send a link to anything you've read I would love to see it.

[diamondactor]

Hey, so I've done this in a few of my short stories. In Grandfather Murder I write from the point of view of a grandfather clock at a crime scene. In another short story Carnivore Chorus I write from a pigeons point of view during a Covid apocalyptic NYC (part of an anthology, but all proceeds go to a non-profit).

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[sensibleshroom]

I think the weirdest POV I've ever done was the perspective of a rose falling in love with a sunflower. It was just a short story. Never posted it anywhere. The most ANNOYING POV to me personally to write is present tense, first person or third. Present tense for whatever reason is a nightmare for me to write. I IMMEDIATELY switch to past tense. I can't help it. It ends up so incoherent and takes so much editing to fix.

[Daisy]

room by Emma Donoghue is a novel written by the perspective of a five year old who was born in captivity along with his mom. It even writes like one, from its grammar and words being used. Like i can remember a word that written incorrectly but that's because the kid associated it with something else.

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[fleurravenbooks]

This is more on bad writing, but years ago i was reading something (im sure it was fanfic) and it was 1st person POV , but it would change often, so the problem is, oc/mc was away or unconscious , but author wrote something that happened while they just couldnt notice that. it was something like
" He did ______ and said he loved me. But i didn't know that. " or something similar, my point is if your character wasnt there (and they dont have means to find it out) they shouldnt say something happened. It would make sense if it wasnt 1st person pov

[iHateFridays]

Once I tried to write from the POV of multiple people if that makes sense?
Like "We looked at the view before us, grins spreading on our faces"

[BOMB]

I get what you're saying, but it's not necessarily true all the time. From what point in time are they telling the story? We think of past, present, and future, but there is really immediate past, far past, present, future. If it's a person telling a story about something that's already happened, then, at the time, they may not have been able to know the information, but because they are telling us the story in the future, they likely know everything now, which is why it makes sense.

If the author was telling the story as if it were narration taking place only seconds after the events, then it makes less sense for the narration to have information outside the character's immediate knowledge. But if the author is telling the story as if it's the character recounting events that have already happened far enough in the past that they now know more than they did at the time of the specific events, then it makes more sense for them to have access to that information. Are the telling us the story of something that happened 5 seconds ago or 5 years ago?

It's why the phrase "unbeknownst to me at the time" comes up in first-person writing, amongst other things.

I think of it as immediate past tense, vs. future past tense. I could give a few examples, but I wouldn't want to beat a dead horse. Then again I'm probably not explaining this as well as I could lol.

Still, if the Author you're talking about were switching in and out of the two tenses, that would definitely be annoying. If they start the story with the inability to access information like that, then the whole story should be the same, and vise versa.

[fleurravenbooks]

it was happening at the time of her speaking

[fleurravenbooks]

oh and narrator was the oc, so in my opinion author could of used third person POV or just let oc find out later on what happened