point of view – Confabulator Cafe

First-person, Past Tense: Playing to My Strengths

Larry Jenkins - July 1, 2013

I am a slave to first-person point of view. As I’ve said before, whenever I write a story, I want to connect with the reader. I like the storyteller approach, and I want the audience to feel like I’m talking directly to them, or at least give the illusion that my main character is. For […]

Perplexing the Perspective

Eliza Jaquays - May 21, 2013

When I’m reading books, I recognize the importance that point of view can have on the story. Having something written in first person creates an automatic connection with the reader, while a story in third person allows the reader to leap from one head to another. Multiple character viewpoints can be used to create a […]

Letting It Flow Naturally

Ashley M. Hill - May 10, 2013

As with most things, I don’t think a lot about the mechanics of my writing — I just sort of put words down and figure out how it works later. This has lead me to abandon projects because holy shit, it needs wa~y too much mechanic work. By default for many many moons I wrote […]

What is your preferred point of view?

Paul Swearingen - May 26, 2012

I’ve always had a problem with separating my characters from myself when I’m writing fiction, and so more of my main characters have been female than male and the POV third-person limited. Makes the POV less connected to me that way. Nevertheless, I did experiment with writing one novel in first person from a male’s […]

Establishing Trust

Aspen Junge - May 26, 2012

In technical writing, there is really only one useful point of view, that of Godlike Omniscience. The tech writer’s challenge is to present information that can be complicated, confusing, incomplete, and flat-out tedious to the reader in a way that supports decision making. Furthermore, the information has to be structured in a way that makes […]