What is Head-Hopping and Should You Use it?

Have you ever heard of head-hopping before? If you haven’t, I’d bet you’ve seen it somewhere before. I see it all the time, but I’m a professional editor, so that’s to be expected. (Does that sound like a ringing endorsement for it?) So, what is head-hopping?

What is Head-hopping?

Head-hopping is when a writer jumps from one character’s perspective to another’s abruptly and without a clear delineation between the two, usually within the same scene without a scene break and sometimes within...