4:05 / Perspective / Basic Terms pt 1 / Discovering Characters

How do we present the story to our readers? This question is often asked on social media.

Should I write in first person? Deep Voice? Limited?

All of these are the narration of the story through a character’s eyes and opinions—or more than one characters’ eyes and opinions. This is Perspective, viewpoint, point of view. Our choice of viewpoint matters. How do we make that choice? This episode will help you with that basic decision.

Contents

• 0:39 Introduction
• 1:15 Start
• 3:52 Perspective
• 7:30 Story-Telling Pronouns
• 9:40 4 Successful Points of View
• 13:12 Worrisome Points of View
• 18:18 Decisions about Points of View
• 18:56 Closing

Discovering Characters can be purchased at these links:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Y7LYK19

https://books2read.com/u/3RJrZB

Discovering Your Writing, a bundle of four writing craft books, is available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08691892S

View the Trailer: https://youtu.be/hTVQn92kNBk

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