Lessons From the Purple Writing of The Witcher
Monsters have nothing on the horrors of confusing wordcraft and muddled description.
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Five Ways to Make Multiple Viewpoints More Engaging
How to avoid carelessness when juggling more than one POV.
Episode 243: Multiple POVs Revisited
How our take on multiple viewpoints has evolved since our big debate.
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
Master perspective before it masters you.
Six Common Wordcraft Mistakes in Manuscripts
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
This narrative premise is challenging but wonderfully creative.
Six Novels That Struggle With Multiple POVs
Why struggle to show what this character is thinking on the outside when you could give them a POV?
When to Narrate a Villain’s Point of View
Using a villain's point of view can do more harm than good.
Five Essentials of Omniscient Narration
How to use the strengths of a distant perspective to make your story exciting.
Five Perspective Mistakes to Avoid
Five narrative tropes that your story would really do better without.
Lessons From the Sloppy Writing of The Tommyknockers
How lots of rambling and an uncertain focus turned this sci-fi opening into a slog.
Choosing Your Story’s Perspective
How to know where your story should be narrated from—and what to know about the option you pick.
Breaking the Curse of Distant Perspective
Why you should kick this instinctual writing habit—and what you should replace it with.
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