Personification is efficient – it captures a big idea with just a few words. Here are four ways to use personification to create an immersive and emotionally deep experience for your readers.

Personification is efficient – it captures a big idea with just a few words. Here are four ways to use personification to create an immersive and emotionally deep experience for your readers.
Lisa Hall Wilson helps writers who are looking for tips and help in writing deep point of view. Every so often someone posts some variation of: "so why don’t bestselling authors use deep point of view?" Read on for her answer.
Deep POV can ratchet up the emotional tension and pull the reader in close to experience the character’s inner conflict. It’s not important that readers SEE it, but more that they FEEL it.
Point of View expert Lisa Hall Wilson offers answers to eight common questions about writing in Deep POV.
Lisa Hall-Wilson shows how to deepen your characters with compelling emotional triggers.
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