Story Sensei Deep Point of View Worksheet: Story Sensei, #4
By Camy Tang
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As a writer, you can provide a richer emotional experience for your reader by utilizing a deeper point of view.
Deep point of view draws the reader into the characters' heads and can elicit a stronger emotional reader response to the characters' struggles, decisions, and reactions to external conflict.
Readers who have read a passage in deep point of view often talk about how the characters seemed more vivid, how the story and prose riveted them to the page.
It is very easy for a writer to learn ways to draw the reader into the mind, body, and soul of your characters through deep point of view techniques.
By the end of the worksheet you'll have:
1) A basic understanding of different points of view so you can decide if deep or shallow point of view is best for your story
2) Ways to strengthen the emotional writing and draw the reader deeper into the character's point of view
3) An understanding of the structural elements of a scene to help you know when and how to add deep-POV emotions
4) Tips for how to tweak wording in order to deepen point of view on a minute level, which contributes to a richer point of view for the manuscript as a whole
5) A finely honed radar for spotting "Telling" and shallow POV through exercises
This worksheet consists of lessons, homework, and fun exercises for you to see lots of deep and shallow POV examples. You'll learn lots of simple techniques to help you deepen your character's point of view.
Camy Tang
Camy Tang writes romance with a kick of wasabi. She used to be a biologist, but now she is a staff worker for her church youth group and leads a worship team for Sunday service. On her blog, she ponders frivolous things like knitting, dumb dogs (namely, hers), coffee-geek husbands, the writing journey, Asiana, and anything else that comes to mind. And on her Facebook page, the silliness is unleashed. Join her online!
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Story Sensei Deep Point of View Worksheet - Camy Tang
Story Sensei Deep Point of View worksheet
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Camy Tang
INTRODUCTION
Welcome! My name is Camy Tang and I’ll be teaching you deep Point of View principles and also some tips for spotting shallow POV.
Many times when I critique manuscripts, I see writers inadequately utilize point of view. Instead, they have a very distant use of point of view in their prose that doesn’t get the reader into the character’s head or allow the reader to feel the character’s emotions.
For a first chapter, especially, this is crucial. If the reader isn’t immediately sucked into the character’s mind and body, if the reader doesn’t care about the character, they’re more likely to put the book down. This is especially true of modern readers who often feel they don’t want to waste their time with a boring book.
This can also lead to inadequate character emotions in the writing.
A distant point of view can contribute to distancing the reader from the character’s emotions. And if a reader doesn’t feel the character’s emotions, it can sometimes prevent them from caring about the character at all.
This worksheet will give you some tips to follow that pull the reader deeper into the character’s point of view. Often a judicious word choice does the trick for you without changing the text.
These things will work to pull the reader into the story world and experience the story through the character’s eyes, in the character’s body. It usually gives more intensity to the reading flow.
By the end of the worksheet you’ll have:
1) A basic understanding of different points of view so you can decide if deep or shallow point of view is best for your story
2) Ways to strengthen the emotional writing and draw the reader deeper into the character’s point of view
3) An understanding of the structural elements of a scene to help you know when and how to add deep-POV emotions
4) Tips for how to tweak wording in order to deepen point of view on a minute level, which contributes to a richer point of view for the manuscript as a whole
5) A finely honed radar for spotting Telling
and shallow POV through exercises
Before we begin, I want to emphasize that these tips are only tools for you to use, they are NOT hard and fast rules
for writing. In everything, go with your gut. What you feel you should write is what you should write. These tips will help you intensify the point of view and the emotions of the scene if you feel the scene needs it. These tips are NOT meant to tell you how you should write EVERY scene, EVERY sentence.
I’m assuming you have a completed manuscript you’re self-editing. If you’re still in the midst of writing it, no problem! Many of these things can be used in the self-revision process even as you write. Some of these things can be applied to your revisions when you’re done.
There is homework for each principle in this worksheet. The principles I’m giving are not difficult, but I’ve discovered that implementing them is a bit tougher, so I will focus on helping you take the lesson and apply it to your own writing.
Let’s jump into the worksheet with both feet. I’m going to start with some basic explanations of point of view, so if you’re already familiar with the concepts of general and deep point of view, feel free to skip to lesson 2.
Also, while I mention third person for many of the lessons, almost all of them should be applied to first person also. I have a special lesson on some common mistakes and things to look for in First Person point of view in lesson 12.
LESSON 1: POINT OF VIEW
What is point of view?
It’s the type of narration of a story. For the purposes of a writer, it’s easiest to think of it as the eyes through which your reader sees the scene.
There is third person, second person, and first person point of view.
First person is told from the character as the narrator. I’ll be covering that later.
Second person is not used often. It’s the type of narration where the character is referred to using personal pronouns, which serves to make the reader into the character. I remember this type of narration in the Choose Your Own Adventure books.
Third person is most often used. In third person, the characters are distinct from the storyteller, who is essentially the author. Most readers are familiar with third person, since most fiction is written in third person past tense.
Third person often works because while it’s told by a narrator, the reader is sucked into the story and usually