Your Next Draft
Your Next Draft is the fiction writer's guide to developmental editing. What do you do after your first draft? How do you flesh out flat characters, fill in plot holes, and hook your readers from the first page to the last? What does editing a novel even mean? Developmental editor and book coach Alice Sudlow answers all these questions and more. Each week, she shares the editing strategies she's using with her one-on-one clients so you can put them to use in your own novel. Tune in for tips, tools, and step-by-step guides for the novel editing process.
Your Next Draft
The Most Important Principle When Choosing Your Point of View
Use the limitations of your POV to enhance your story.
Your story’s point of view impacts everything. It shapes how your readers get access to information about your story. And it shapes what information they have access to.
And since at its core, storytelling is just telling your reader information about a story, this is huge.
In this episode, I’m tackling a common POV problem I’ve seen in many, many manuscripts.
You’ll learn:
- 3 reasons why POV is so tricky to master
- The “easy out” POV writers choose when other points of view feel challenging to use
- Why limits are actually good for your writing
- And more!
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