March 24th, 2021

2 Ways to Help Readers Connect Emotionally With Your Characters

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Lisa Hall Wilson | Writing Craft

When you begin to learn about Deep Point of View, one of the over-simplified “rules” that’s taught is to remove emotion words (hate, anxious, happy, sad, worried, etc.), but that leaves you with a BIGGER problem. How do you show the character's emotions once you’ve removed the emotion words?… Read the post

January 27th, 2021

4 Ways to Write Deeper with Personification

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Lisa Hall Wilson | Writing Craft

I’m often asked how to go deeper in fiction. My jam is Deep Point of View, and I get that not everyone loves deep POV. That’s okay. However, if you’re looking for a really quick way to make your setting or characters come alive on the page, personification is one of those tools that every writer can use more effectively.… Read the post

September 23rd, 2020

Using Deep POV In Limited Third Person

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Lisa Hall Wilson | Writing Craft

by Lisa Hall-Wilson

This was a question that came up in my free Facebook group. What if you find deep POV too restrictive? What if deep POV doesn’t fit your storytelling style or the genre you’re writing?

That’s OK. Deep POV is a stylistic tool, you use the tool at your discretion.… Read the post

May 27th, 2020

3 Exercises To Dive Deeper Into Character Emotions

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Lisa Hall Wilson | Writing Craft

By Lisa Hall-Wilson

So, you’ve got a first (or second or third) draft, but you’re still trying to get at the heart of what motivates your character. You’re still trying to unearth the variety of emotions, the intensity, the complexities of the emotions your character experiences at different points in the story.… Read the post

April 13th, 2020