Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Point of View (POV) in your novel

Books: Write Fiction

Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

In the Lesson Two of our Pro Write Workshop "Build Your Novel" we discuss character and POV. The lesson will be posted in a couple of days.

If your characters don't come alive in your novel, POV is the challenge.

Here's a brief excerpt from the lesson:

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Point of View is perspective. It's the first element you select in writing your novel. If it's your first novel, you'll usually do this unconsciously. You may choose First Person POV, that is the main character and you, the author, tell the story as "I".

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If you're uncertain about POV, ask yourself: where's the camera?

Each scene of your novel is usually written in one POV. In short novels, of under 60,000 words, the stories are told from the viewpoint of no more than two people. There's not the space to drag in multiple points of view: if you do, you will diffuse the effect of your story, and you'll confuse the reader, as well as yourself.

The longer your novel, the more space you have to enter different Points of View. In a novel of 100, 000 words, you have space for around four Points of View: the hero and heroine, the villain (antagonist) and one other.

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