Unlocking the Power of Multiple Viewpoint Characters: The Secret to Unforgettable Stories
But that raises another issue.
About Viewpoint Characters
We need to be clear that a “protagonist” is not the same thing as a “viewpoint character.”
As I said above, the protagonist, if he exists, is the #1 character in the story, the one the reader is rooting for.
A viewpoint character is the person through whose eyes we’re living a particular scene. (So the viewpoint character can change from scene to scene.)
You can have a protagonist who is not a viewpoint character, and vice versa. (Example: Sherlock Holmes is the protagonist in the Holmes stories, but Watson is almost always the viewpoint character.)
