I’m talking POV today.
I have a good handle on POV. I know what the different types are, what they’re used for, and how to use them, but sometimes I feel like I could use it so much more powerfully than I do. So, I signed up for a 4-week online workshop over at Earthly Charms on how to “power up” your POV (being taught by Alicia Rasley).
Well, we’re into week one, and in one of the assignments I griped about how I could write scenes in my hero’s POV like there was no tomorrow, but when I wrote in my heroine’s head, it was like having a root canal to get myself into her head and really into her thoughts.
Alicia suggested I try writing one of her scenes in first person (and, yes, I’ve had a couple of people suggest this and I’ve always went, “Yeah, sure, I’ll try that”…and then proceeded to just not even give it a go because it seemed like a waste of time). Well, I’m here–beaming–to say that it’s not a waste of time! It worked!
I wrote 7 pages of a scene that was driving me batty in the space of about an hour and a half (now, I probably could’ve written a little more, but naughty me still couldn’t stop my fingers from hitting the delete key and editing here and there).
And the best part is, I went back and read through it, inserting ‘her’ and ‘she’ for the ‘I’ and ‘My’ and the thing will translate sooo nicely that way.
Oh, yeah, baby….I wrote a killer scene!!!! Talk to me tomorrow and see if I’m still riding this high.
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Yay!
That’s actually how I learned what third person was, but turning a first person ms into a third. Great trick!
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WOO HOO! Congrats!
I find the heroine’s POV more difficult to write than the hero’s, too. Part of me wonders if it’s not because my girls are more complex. That’s not to say my boys are simpletons, but it’s easier for me to see my own edit comment of “make more guy-ish” and come up with a change than to make anything more girly.
Did that make sense?
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