"Bend" is modest, IMO. Not for everybody, but just saying.
I'm okay with it when it's ABSOLUTELY NECCESSARY to push the plot along, and did it once or twice myself back in Kill Town as a way to push a point in my post, but I'm not going to write the majority of a story or post from another character's point of view just to "explore another character." That's what writing with others is for. When I read a post about Kaden, I want Kaden. When I read a post about Ander or Belle or Sage or Orsalis or Ashe, I want Ander or Belle or Sage or Orsalis or Ashe. As a reader, I read your post because I want to explore your character, and it puts me off when that's not happening.
EDIT: I somehow missed Vad's post. I, personally, don't agree. I'm writing a story. I don't plan to take my work and bind it and sell it. To me, that's a book, and you're teasing yourself if you call what we do on here novel material. Sure, if someone takes their stories, edits them to appease a novelistic format, more power to them, but we're not writing books. We're writing extended histories of our characters. And I repeat myself - if you try to call that a book then you're lying to yourself.
I'm okay with it when it's ABSOLUTELY NECCESSARY to push the plot along, and did it once or twice myself back in Kill Town as a way to push a point in my post, but I'm not going to write the majority of a story or post from another character's point of view just to "explore another character." That's what writing with others is for. When I read a post about Kaden, I want Kaden. When I read a post about Ander or Belle or Sage or Orsalis or Ashe, I want Ander or Belle or Sage or Orsalis or Ashe. As a reader, I read your post because I want to explore your character, and it puts me off when that's not happening.
EDIT: I somehow missed Vad's post. I, personally, don't agree. I'm writing a story. I don't plan to take my work and bind it and sell it. To me, that's a book, and you're teasing yourself if you call what we do on here novel material. Sure, if someone takes their stories, edits them to appease a novelistic format, more power to them, but we're not writing books. We're writing extended histories of our characters. And I repeat myself - if you try to call that a book then you're lying to yourself.