Writer's View: PoV Switches

Point of View switches can be powerful tools, if done correctly, or incredibly jarring and disrupting when done poorly.

A Point of View switch is when the author switches the story to another character's perspective. This can be done in both first person and third person, although generally it's less necessary in third person, but more difficult in first person.

An example of this is in The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini. In the first book in the series, Eragon, the reader follows solely in a single point of view; that of the main character, Eragon.

Writer's View: Point of View

I've read and written a lot of stories in my life, and one thing I noticed very early on is how different a story can feel when you shift a Point of View (PoV).

One of my earliest memories of reading a first person PoV was around 6 or 8 years old, when I was reading Goosebumps.

Goosebumps books are famously written in first person PoV from the protagonist's (although sometimes they end up being the antagonist, but that's for another day) perspective. It's a very easy and effective way to place the reader in the middle of the story and elicit the feeling of fear that is desired when reading a scary story. This started me down a path of noticing how PoV can change the entire feeling of a story, and I began to experiment with it myself.

Point of View can be a very effective method of creating different emotions in a reader. It's also very useful to signify they type of story you're telling. There's many different types of PoV, and PoV switches, but I want to talk about some popular ones and how they effect the story.

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Writer's View: Character Development

There's a lot of things to think about when writing a story; be it a novel, a short story, even a movie or television show.

If your story is fiction, there's a good chance that all of your characters are created in your own mind. The writer is the god of the universe they are creating, and because of that, they are entirely responsible to make sure the characters are properly fleshed out.

I'm talking about character development.