{"id":2917,"date":"2012-05-26T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T11:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=2917"},"modified":"2012-05-26T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T11:00:58","slug":"mechanics-what-is-your-preferred-point-of-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/?p=2917","title":{"rendered":"What is your preferred point of view?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always had a problem with separating my characters from myself when I&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, I did experiment with writing one novel in first person from a male&#8217;s POV, and after some slips at the beginning, the novel took off on its own, and I finished it successfully.<\/p>\n<p>The latest trend is for YA authors to use present tense (a few even use second, at least in a few separated spots), but present tense just doesn&#8217;t fit my style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always had a problem with separating my characters from myself when I&#8217;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&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[858],"class_list":["post-2917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mechanics","tag-point-of-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.confabulatorcafe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}