Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
on Aliventures site:
Who’s telling your story?
Perhaps the choice is easy and obvious: you’re writing from a particular character’s viewpoint in the first person (“I”) and the whole story is from their perspective.
Or perhaps it’s trickier than that. You’ve got a story to tell involving multiple characters, and you need to make some choices.
The point of view (POV)or viewpoint is the angle the story’s being told from. For instance, in Emma Donaghue’s Room, the point of view character is 5-year-old Jack.
The story might be told in the first person (“I”), second person (“you”), or third person (“s/he”). It can also be told in past tense or present tense, which I’ll come onto in the second part of this post.
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