Perspective and Deep POV

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Point of view (POV) refers to the method of telling a story outside of the dialogue. It has to do with determining who is telling the story—a character, an external narrator, no one—and how. But point of view goes a lot deeper of that with perspective, and it can not only make your characters stronger, but it can even make and break your story. In this course, we’ll examine how to effectively use point of view with a focus on the most popular POV mode in contemporary fiction: deep POV.

 

This course was originally presented to Authors Incognito (now Storymakers Ink).

What Will You Learn?

  • Choosing the best perspective character and point-of-view mode for your story
  • How to write in deep POV, the most popular perspective in fiction today
  • When to use italics and words about thinking in deep POV for seamless writing
  • How to get into your characters' heads to truly write through their eyes for an immersive experience for the reader
  • Advanced POV techniques to make writing easy and engaging

Course Content

A Quick Introduction to POV
I’m sure that a lot of this will be review for most of us, but it’s only natural to start off a course on POV by introducing the basic concepts in point of view. So, point of view refers to the method of telling a story outside of the dialogue. It has to do with determining who is telling the story—a character, an external narrator, no one—and how. But point of view goes a lot deeper of that with perspective, and it can not only make your characters stronger, but it can even make and break your story.

  • Person
  • Narrator Omniscience
  • Narrator Reliability
  • Verb Tense
  • The Advantages and Disadvantages of POV Choices

Deep POV: The Mechanics
For better or for worse, deep POV is the default mode of storytelling today (other than first person, of course). For our purposes, we’re going to focus at what’s most popular now—and this is one trend that we all have to pay attention to.

Conveying Deep POV: Getting Closer to Our Characters
In deep POV, we’re very close to our characters’ thoughts, feelings and perceptions. One of the most basic things we have to do to write in deep POV is to understand what our characters are thinking and feeling. To do this, we have to get into their heads.

Choosing the Best POV for You
Each book, each character and even each scene requires you to make choices about what POV to use. If you have more than one POV character in a scene—as you will in many of your most pivotal scenes—you have to decide which character should control the scene, or whose eyes your reader gets the scene through. The way you use the POV in a scene and in a whole book affects the way your characters and your story are perceived. It’s important to get it right! We’ll look at how to make these choices. But no matter what POV you choose, you want to make the best choice you can for your story.

Advanced POV Techniques
We’ve covered the basics of POV, dug into the mechanics, learned about getting into our character’s heads and choosing and managing POVs. Now we’re really going to go deep, looking at all the ways we do not want to eject our readers from the characters’ heads, how we can use POV to help in foreshadowing, and how to handle foreign-language POV characters.

Conclusion, Bonus Material & Download Library

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