Limited point of view ranges between a close and a far narrative distance, but is often considered the tight point of view.
I had conversations with two separate (and confused) writers this week about point of view (POV) and narrative distance, particularly with what was acceptable in a limited point of view. But what they were really asking had more to do with narrative distance than point of view.
The Difference Between a Limited and a Tight Point of View
Although often used interchangeably in conversation, limited point of view and tight point of view are not the same thing. Limited point of view is telling the story through one character’s point of view per scene. This applies to novels with one point of view character as well as multiple point of view characters. The difference between limited and omniscient, is that omniscient is in everyone’s head all the time, while limited is one character per scene.
