October 28th, 2016
How Filtering the Point of View Affects Show, Don't Tell
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Craft | Janice Hardy
Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy
Readers experience your novel through the eyes of your narrator. Sometimes this narrative filter is invisible and readers don’t perceive any distance between them and the point-of-view character, such as with a first-person point of view. Other times the filters are obvious and readers feel the space between them and the characters, such as with an omniscient narrator.… Read the post
March 15th, 2013
Point of View: Choosing Whose Head To Be In
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Craft
by Sharla Rae
The first thing writers learn about Point of View, or POV, is that it refers to whose head we’re in.
In other words: through whose perspective will the reader experience the sounds, smells, actions and emotions of a story/scene?… Read the post
July 23rd, 2012
Put Your Reader in Your POV Character’s Skin ~ by Margie Lawson
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Blogging Guests | Craft | Margie Lawson
This will be the only post here at Writers in the Storm until next Monday. We're leaving for the RWA 2012 Conference in Anaheim tomorrow.
BUT we'll be tweeting and Facebooking during the conference so
those of you who aren't able to get to the Happiest Place on Earth will be able to experience some of the flavor and fun of the workshops, luncheons, mini conferences, and meet-and-greets.… Read the post
April 4th, 2012
#Women Are From Venus, Men Are Annoying -- A Guest Post
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Blogging Guests | Craft
By Rob Preece
While sitting at an autographing at the Romantic Times Convention several years ago, a woman hurried up to my table. I gave her my best “I’m-safe” smile.
The signing hadn’t gone well so far—could I be on the verge of something good?… Read the post
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