In writing, I've found, everything is debatable. Even spelling and grammar conventions!
In some cases, they start with one version and end with something completely different. I've sometimes written five different openings for a story and not known which one to use till about halfway through the rest of the plot. Sometimes I've even combined different versions and come out with the right one. Sometimes it's just a matter of getting some kind of beginning down on paper, knowing that you might have to rewrite it later. (I once read a post by an author who said he [might've been a he, it's been a while] fully expected to have to rewrite his beginning once he'd finished the book and knew what the ending sounded and felt like, so he just dashed something off and went from there.)
POV is a tricky little beast. There's a ton of debate around it, too, and it's so much a matter of personal preference (both on the part of the writer and the reader) that it can be hard to manage. I find that I write stories using whatever POV makes most sense to me, knowing that if later editors think it should be in a different POV I can change it.
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In some cases, they start with one version and end with something completely different. I've sometimes written five different openings for a story and not known which one to use till about halfway through the rest of the plot. Sometimes I've even combined different versions and come out with the right one. Sometimes it's just a matter of getting some kind of beginning down on paper, knowing that you might have to rewrite it later. (I once read a post by an author who said he [might've been a he, it's been a while] fully expected to have to rewrite his beginning once he'd finished the book and knew what the ending sounded and felt like, so he just dashed something off and went from there.)
POV is a tricky little beast. There's a ton of debate around it, too, and it's so much a matter of personal preference (both on the part of the writer and the reader) that it can be hard to manage. I find that I write stories using whatever POV makes most sense to me, knowing that if later editors think it should be in a different POV I can change it.