writer's clue for pov 071015
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Presented by Jeanne “Genie” Mifflin Writer’s Clue for POV
First Person
Second Person
• Omniscient• Objective• Limited• Shifting Perspective
Third Person
Who Done It?
The Focus is on the Central Character
It’s Easy to Establish Conflict
Quickly
Events Happen Directly to the
Main Character
The Narrator and Reader are both Experiencing the
Story
It’s Easy to Create a Tone/Voice for the Story because it’s
Just One Character
Clever
First Person
The Reader Can Only Experience the Story from Your Character’s
Point of View
It can be Difficult to Create Enough Distance
Between Your Own Character and the One
You’ve Created
You May be so Familiar with Certain Scenes and Situations that You Fail to Describe them for
your Reader
We may want the Character (Our Own
Self?) to Look Good in the Story
Shady
The Main Character says “You” as if they
are Talking to Someone Else (Even through He is Talking to Himself)
Clever Shady
Second Person
You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy.
—Opening lines of Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City (1984)
The Main Character says “You” as if they
are Talking to Someone Else (Even through He is Talking to Himself)
Writer Refers to the Characters by Name
Writer can use the Pronouns “He” or “She”
Characters and Situations are Presented as a Narrator Who can also Move Inside
each Character’s Head
Clever
Third Person
Four Types
The Story Voice Knows Everything and Can be Everywhere
Omniscient
Video Camera – The Story Voice Observes Events
and Describes DetailsObjective
Story can Enter the Mind of Only One Character at a Time
and uses the pronouns “He” and “She”Limited
Story Uses Limited Perspective but Shifts from Character to
Character in each new chapter.Shifting
Perspective
The Story Voice Knows Everything
and Can be Everywhere
Clever Shady
Focus Constantly Changing from a Godlike
Overview to Up Close and Personal so can be
Difficult to Follow
Third Person Omniscient
“Good evening, Alyona Ivanovna,” he began, trying to speak
easily, but his voice would not obey him, it broke and shook.
“I have come…I have brought something…but we’d better
come in…to the light.” And leaving her, he passed straight
into the room uninvited. The old woman ran after him. Her
tongue was unloosed. “Good Heavens! What is it? Who is
it? What do you want?”
Video Camera – The Story Voice
Observes Events and Describes
Details
Clever Shady
The Writer Simply Observes and
Narrates Events – He Doesn’t Enter the Minds of the
Characters
Third Person Objective
"They look like white elephants," she said.
"I've never seen one," the man drank his beer.
"No, you wouldn't have."
"I might have," the man said. "Just because you say I wouldn't have doesn't
prove anything."
The girl looked at the bead curtain. "They've painted something on it," she
said. "What does it say?"
"Anis del Toro. It's a drink."
"Could we try it?"
Story can Enter the Mind of
Only One Character at a Time
and uses the Pronouns “He” and “She”
Clever
Third Person Limited
This Point of View is the Most Commonly Used
The air of the room chilled his shoulders. He stretched himself cautiously along under the sheets and lay down beside his wife. One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. He thought of how she who lay beside him had locked in her heart for so many years that image of her lover’s eyes when he had told her that he did not wish to live.
Information for this presentation was loosely gleaned from the following source:Heffron, Jack. The Writer’s Idea Book, Blue Ash: Writer’s Digest Books, 2011. Print.
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