The Problem With Multiple Viewpoints
Why we're so cranky about a writing practice that's considered normal.
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Episode 276: Internal Narration
Well, if you're using words to communicate, you have to use words to communicate.
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Monsters have nothing on the horrors of confusing wordcraft and muddled description.
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How to avoid carelessness when juggling more than one POV.
Narrating a Close Point of View
Bring your readers closer to feeling like the story is happening to them.
Lessons From The Maze Runner’s Point of View Disaster
This post-apocalyptic YA novel by James Dashner spawned not only bestselling sequels but also a movie series.
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We see these issues over and over again during editing.
Episode 196: Dramatic Irony
We get old school with a discussion of some ancient Greek tragedies.
Four Challenges of Nonlinear Narratives
A typical story opens when a problem appears and moves forward steadily in time until that problem is resolved.
A Beginner’s Guide to Epistolary Writing
Many writers have a pet narrative technique they think is underused and underappreciated.
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Why struggle to show what this character is thinking on the outside when you could give them a POV?
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