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For the last two days, we have focused on point of view in your story or novel. Your writing tasks for today–for your “750 words each day in January”–is to practice POV. Today, focus on 3rd person point of view. 3rd person POV A 3rd person POV pulls back from the position inside the character’s [...]
Yesterday, today and tomorrow, we are focusing on point of view in your story or novel. Your writing tasks for the next 2 days for your “750 words each day in January” is to practice POV. Today, we’ll focus on 1st person point of view. 1st person POV When the camera resides inside one character’s [...]
For the recent discussion on focal length of your scene, I accidentally confused a reader. I wrote: A scan is a way to show a crowd scene economically, yet in an interesting way. It involves a series of small zooms: the quarterback’s mother is taping the game with a new video camera that she borrowed [...]
When you write a novel, or revise a novel, the default point-of-view and the most common used is third person. (Though, first person point of view is giving it a run for its money these days. ) The Versatile Point of View Think about point of view as a camera. In the 3rd person POV, [...]
L asks: “Do you think an author’s ‘voice’ is easier to establish when a novel is written in 3rd POV omniscient than in 1st POV? Just asking because in the writing of my current WIP novel, I felt that I had to find and stick with the MC’s voice, and now in the polishing – [...]
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