I was mining through the comments section on the blog, and this one came up a couple of times: how do you show the passage of time in a story without using author intrusion or telling? This is a tricky one that trips up a lot of writers trying to … [Read more]
How To Revise For Deep POV
So, you've decided (or been told) to revise or rewrite your manuscript into deep POV. Congrats!! Once you go deep, you never go back! But WOW!! Every writer facing this decision is justifiably intimidated by the mountain of work you now seem to be … [Read more]
When To Use Deep POV In Fiction By Genre
Deep POV is a popular stylistic writing technique that aims to remove the narrative/psychic distance between readers and the POV character. Deep POV's goal is to immerse the reader in a real-time, lived-experience of the character's emotional … [Read more]
How To Add Emotion In Fiction
Learning to write in deep point of view isn't easy -- not for most writers at any rate. It's so tempting just to tell the reader what's going on, how the character feels, what the character wants/prioritizes. Instead, if we can stretch ourselves and … [Read more]
Why Deep POV Isn’t Working And How To Fix It
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]
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