POV Checklist
The writer should be aware of the narrative distance between the telling narrator and the experiencing narrator.
- The tone of voice in the narrator, the story depends on his trust and wisdom.
- Remove filtering words, (saw, heard, felt, etc)
- Be direct and immediate!
- Use the tone of voice to pull readers into the plot
- Sensory: what the character see’s, feels, hears, smells and tastes
- Don’t name emotions, instead describe what the character feels through sensations or thoughts
- Summarize current locations for the reader to remember what they are in the story.
- Tell rather than show processes.
Process:
- My POV story is going to be challenging for me, I always immediately write in first or second person and writing neither as well as describing the pov through a person will be hard, but I am going to try and make it work.
- The idea I had for this story was weird, I’m going to have a bright young boy pass out during school and during his fainting spell, he is going to experience something weird. He is going to shrink down to a pea-sized version of himself and be placed in between the pages of an older mom (who never reads) book. He won’t be freed until the pages are opened.
- I am going to have multiple POV’s through the boy and the woman and it will go back in forth between them. I plan on really focussing on describing emotions and feelings rather than strictly naming them.
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