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The Power of Point of View Part 2

By on April 25, 2008 in Action and ReAction Scenes, House Calls, What POV do I write in?

Yesterday, we talked about Point of View, and started a discussion over on Voices. Be sure to let us know if you have any POV questions. To recap, point of view refers to the character “telling” the story. We can only know what he/she sees, hears and feels. If the story is being told in first person, then the protagonist does most of the talking. 🙂 A story can have more than one POV in first person, but the character voices must be unique. In third person, the author has more opportunity to open up the story and allow the reader to see the action from different “angles.” Talking to my Thomas Nelson editors once, I learned they like third person because of the versatility where sometimes first person can […]

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The Power of Point of View Part 1

By on April 24, 2008 in Action and ReAction Scenes, House Calls, What POV do I write in?

Continuing on our “Hero’s Journey” today we’re going to talk about Point of View. Why is point of view important, and how does it effectively help or harm our work? Today I’m going to talk about “why” and tomorrow I’ll go into “how” of POV. First, for any newbies, WELCOME to MyBookTherapy! Glad to have you. Join Voices and hang out on the forums for interactive writing help. Second, the acronym POV stands for Point of View. Point of View – what is it? It’s the view or perspective of the protagonist or secondary characters. Perhaps the story view of the hero or the heroine. There are several types of point of view writing. Limited Third Person, Omniscient, Narrative, First Person, even Second Person. Now, some of this goes to […]

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Voices of Reason and Passion!

By on April 22, 2008 in Secondary Characters

The voice of Passion lives in my house. She’s dressed like my teenage daughter (on any given day that might be a pair of jeans, topped with a skirt, with a tank top under a short sleeved sweatshirt, and a pair of what my husband calls, her Wonder Woman arm protectors). Now, to be fair, my daughter has long moments of what I call sanity, where reason prevails, when I can convince her that no, her brothers aren’t trying to drive her crazy, even though they insist on leaving the bathroom…well, you know. And then there are the moments when passion takes over. When, despite our best efforts, life is simply too much, when she must play her music at the top of the allowed decibel levels, when, to put […]

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REAL Supernatural Aid

By on April 21, 2008 in Nurturing the Soul

I’ll never forget the day my hubby came home from Moody Bible Institute’s Founder’s week, after listening to a sermon by Bruce Wilkinson…no, not a sermon, a challenge to go to Russia, to help the school system (yes!) teach a morals and ethics curriculum, to introduce the gospel to a country that had denied God for 70 years. His enthusiasm swept me away, and I was right there with him, ready to sell every thing we had, to pack up our life, and our two little children (ages newborn and 14 months) and hop a plane for Russia. Thankfully, God gave me a little time to prepare, but a year later, there we were, filling out forms. And I stood at the pinnacle of an incredible journey…and panicked. What if […]

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