Breaking the Rules on POV

Guest Post at Career Authors

Today I have an article over at Career Authors. Normally I wouldn’t send you a post asking you to go elsewhere to read, but Career Authors is a fantastic site for aspiring and new writers to learn so much about writing, editing, agents, and the publication process. (And it’s free!)

My article is about Point-of-View and who you use to tell your story.

Here’s a teaser:

Point-of-view is how you tell your story — through whose eyes we are seeing and living the fictional world you create. The key point here: this is the world you create.

YA author Lauren Oliver said, “That is the strangest thing about the world: how it looks so different from every point of view.”

And that, in a nutshell, is what makes being a writer so damn fun. You can see the world through different eyes — the eyes of your characters. It’s also what makes POV so important: the story changes based on each POV’s subjective view.

You’ll hear a lot of advice about POV. For new authors, strict rules can be beneficial—until you find your writing chops. Sometimes rules are stifling. I am not a POV purist.

So, what are these so-called rules?

To find out more about the rules and when and why they should be broken, read my article at Career Authors.

Feel free to comment or ask questions! I love talking about writing.