POV Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/pov/ Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:27:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Second Person: Why I Used You In My Novel https://booksbywomen.org/second-person-why-i-used-you-in-my-novel/ https://booksbywomen.org/second-person-why-i-used-you-in-my-novel/#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2016 09:27:46 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15823 Second person address, “I-to-you,” is a fascinating and effective literary device, the most intimate point-of-view there is, but writers avoid it like a death knell. Most editors reject it. Not only that, it isn’t easy to pull off, especially in novel length stories. So why use it? Why have the narrator tell her story to […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/second-person-why-i-used-you-in-my-novel/feed/ 4 15823 Whose Point of View is it Anyway? https://booksbywomen.org/whose-point-of-view-is-it-anyway/ https://booksbywomen.org/whose-point-of-view-is-it-anyway/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:14:40 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15236 When I started writing my debut novel, The Other Mrs Walker (Mantle, 2016) I kept getting transported back to 1944. Not literally, of course (though that would have helped with research) but through the eyes of one of my characters.Then another. Then another after that. Sometimes this would happen within the same page. Sometimes within […]

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