Many blogs repeat the same four to six points on writing in deep POV, so you read those and think – heh, that doesn’t look too hard. But your efforts continually fall short with beta readers, critique partners and editors. They say ‘go deeper’ and … [Read more]
Go Deeper Writing Fiction With Personification
I’m often asked HOW to go deeper in fiction. Even if you’re not writing in deep POV, there are always places in many scenes where you’re looking to show insight/motivation/desire, use subtext, create setting – in a deeper way. You’re setting or … [Read more]
Examples of First Person Deep POV
First person POV is automatically deep pov, right? NOPE. They are very different, though first person POV stories may use elements of deep pov, there's a lot more to deep pov than most realize. I recently did a guest post on why first person pov … [Read more]
17 Things To Know About Deep POV Before You Start Writing
I LOVE deep POV, but there’s a lot of confusion about what it is and what it isn’t, how it works, what genre or tense you must use – lots of questions and a lot of confusion. I wanted to put together a list of things many people don’t realize before … [Read more]
4 Responses To Uncertainty That Create Tension In Fiction
Something I've observed over the last two years or so is how different personalities react to uncertainty. Very little about life is certain, that's always been true, but when the stakes are raised different personalities handle uncertainty in varied … [Read more]
1 Pro Tip To Create Emotional Depth In Deep POV
I have mainly been writing guest posts for other blogs and neglecting my own. *sad face* So, I'm hoping to post here more regularly going forward, but it will mean shorter posts. *mittened fist-bump* One of the things that writers seem to struggle … [Read more]
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