4th Person POV: 4 Tips To Use It Right by Linnea Gradin
Linnea Gradin shares some tips on how to write in 4th person POV. How is it different from first and third person POV? How do we use it?
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Five Types of Point of View and Which One is Absolutely, No Doubt the Best by Laurel Osterkamp
Authors can have difficulty choosing their books point of view, sometimes they can look to their story to help them decide.
Resources on Point of View (POV)
Check out our resources on POV — point of view — on Writer’s Fun Zone blog and beyond. Articles, webinar trainings, and books. Questions about point of view? Post in the comments below. Any...
Nothing else does more to make a reader love the characters (Training)
“Nothing else does more to make a reader love the characters or to allow her to share in the characters’ emotions.” — Alice Gaines *** I’m passionate about point of view and work hard...
Writing Romance is a Different Animal by Carol Malone
All fiction genres have plots. A story needs a story-line, something that pushes the characters from page one to the end. When we look at a mystery, we want to see how the main character is going to solve the mystery and save themselves and probably their lover. In romance, the plot HAS to be driven by the romantic relationship of the hero and heroine and by the turning points in their romantic relationship.
Characters and Their Sensory Limitations: POV and Description by Susanne Lakin
Few writers pay much attention to character placement, but this is something of paramount concern to filmmakers, and a subject I cover in depth in Shoot Your Novel. A director has to lay out his camera shots, deciding when a close-up shot would be more effective than a long shot, for example. He may want the camera positioned far away from the action, to make details unclear and evoke curiosity or misinterpretation. Or he may have an extreme close-up to ensure viewers don’t miss a tiny detail that is crucial to the plot.
A Year To Publication: Avoiding a Saggy Middle in Your Novel by Jennifer Snow
‘Yay, no saggy middle issue’, the words every author hopes to hear from their editors upon receiving revision notes. But how do we avoid it when we have three hundred pages to fill? Believe me, I feel the pain of that middle section of every book I write, just like everyone else…I’ve just learned a few techniques to ‘get around it’. At every writing conference I attend, I always choose to sit in on the workshops that tackle this issue and the following are various tips I’ve found to be the most helpful.
Deep POV: Plunging off the Cliff by Kay Keppler
This simple example is just to demonstrate how deep POV works. Of course, nothing is ever absolute, and deep POV can get much deeper than this when you’re working in your own scenes.
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