I can get my writing into Deep POV, but staying there, building a more solid arc to get there, has always been my challenge. You succinctly hit the head on the proverbial nail on each of your points. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Yes. It’s not about the kind of story you want to tell, the genre, first or third person or past or present tense. The learning curve is capturing the lived experience of the character immersively.

The training to get emotion onto the page didn't come until almost two decades after I started writing. Deep POV got easier at that point, because I could finally see how to do it.

Deep POV isn’t about emotion. Any viewpoint done well can get curious about and compellingly explore emotions in a story. The difference is how immersive is the character’s emotional journey? How much do you employ the author/narrator voice to do that? Deep POV wants to completely remove the author/narrator voice.

Yes - less so for YA but definitely for MG for sure. However, kids are great observers. They pic up on body language cues pretty quickly even if they can’t articulate what they’re taking in.

Awesome! Are you enjoying deep POV or finding it a slog?

Glad it was helpful! These are problems everyone can be watching for!