Monthly Archives: December 2010

POV and Style, PART 2: Do Your Groundwork

Stylized writing is something everyone wants to try, once or twice.  Things like intensely tonal writing, insane temporal structures, and iambic pentameter sometimes are unique choices that add pop and interest to a story.  Sometimes there’s only one way to tell a particular story, and that’s with eight simultaneous first person narrators.  (If that is Read more

POV and Style, PART I: Be a Ninja

I’m writing a blog post in first person present tense.  For a blog post, first person present is a pretty easy choice.  I’m the narrator, I’m the main character, I’m talking directly to a reader.  No intervening characters will be jumping into the mix, unless I very quickly develop dissociative identity disorder.  (That seems unlikely.) Read more