Archive for the ‘POV’ Category
Monday, March 31st, 2008
The question was asked: What is exposition?
I am relatively certain that this word is not common when talking about fiction. Most people want to use terms like show and tell and leave out longer and more difficult words and concepts. However, as a person who comes to fiction as ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
I recently picked up a copy of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and read the whole thing. This was an entertaining book written by an author that goes by the name AVI. You can walk into almost any bookstore, go to the children's section, look under Independent Reader ages ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Some time ago I would look at a writing project and think, "In order to start this I have to write about the big picture, show the macro view of the world and then start zooming in." I don't know what that meant. During the transition from a young writer ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
POV is important to realize, in part, because you are dealing with specific elements of story telling.In this context, who the POV character, or characters, is brings into the question whether or not the narrative of the story is reliable, unreliable, or even semi-reliable.
The reliability of the narrator is ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
What is POV?
Well, simply put it is Point Of View. Which then leads to: What does this mean? (You might've added some colorful language. That's okay.)
POV is the point from which a story is told. Specifically, it is the character you follow as a reader. In most stories this character ...
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