The Craft of Writing a POV | wprnPublicRadio.com
by Randall “Jay” Andrews
Thirty-six manuscripts and twenty-five years in the entertainment industry. With an eclectic storytelling range, his work encompasses Sci-fi, dystopian, noir, mystery, thriller, horror, speculative, and contemporary drama (I know, weird last one, but that’s most of my early work.) Writing has been a lifelong love and a lifelong discipline. He’s always up to chat about writing and can be found working with writers to push them to reach their goals. (Okay, so first person, inside the quotes. If you’re reading this, enjoy, I have some fun stuff.)
Point of View
I’ve gone over the different Points Of View many times. Explaining at length the different forms of 3rd person, as well as, the views of 1st and 2nd person.
This time, I’d like to avoid getting technical and get into a real-world way of explaining how the three views work for your storytelling. When a writer tells me they have to go check to see what POV they are using, I realize they have gravely missed one of the most critical junctures of writing, and that is determining how the story is going to be told.
Every story has a narrator, and every story is designed to involve the reader in a specific way. For a down and dirty way of remembering, think of it this way: When you were a young child and you came home from school, your mother may have said to you, “Guess what I did today?”
WRITE ON!
