I did pretty much the same thing re: chapters and chores when I was growing up!
I also feel weird continuing with the same POV after a scene break.
So did I! I got around it by transitioning within the same POV--letting the words show the break between scenes instead of a line break (in the format my novel's in, a line break is always a POV change). It can still feel a little awkward, but I wanted to make sure a line break meant the same thing every time.
I think that I often let my chapters fall into a sort of a pattern, and I feel uncomfortable if I realize that and then realize the pattern's broken (In the book I'm editing, many of the beginning chapters tend to take a scene from each POV, just about, but later in the book, that gets all twisted and messed up because the logical flow demands that I continue with a certain POV for awhile).
Breaking the pattern, especially toward the end, can be a good thing. A broken pattern means something's changed, and logically, a lot of things must have changed for your characters by that point.
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Date: 2009-11-10 04:46 am (UTC)I also feel weird continuing with the same POV after a scene break.
So did I! I got around it by transitioning within the same POV--letting the words show the break between scenes instead of a line break (in the format my novel's in, a line break is always a POV change). It can still feel a little awkward, but I wanted to make sure a line break meant the same thing every time.
I think that I often let my chapters fall into a sort of a pattern, and I feel uncomfortable if I realize that and then realize the pattern's broken (In the book I'm editing, many of the beginning chapters tend to take a scene from each POV, just about, but later in the book, that gets all twisted and messed up because the logical flow demands that I continue with a certain POV for awhile).
Breaking the pattern, especially toward the end, can be a good thing. A broken pattern means something's changed, and logically, a lot of things must have changed for your characters by that point.