Good luck with your work in the coming week, and tune in next week for another prompt or suggestion.
Music: Aaron Shapiro
Write The Book: Conversations on Craft
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Interview from the archives with Canadian Author Douglas Glover. We discussed his book of craft essays, Attack of the Copula Spiders (Biblioasis).
Early in his essay collection, Doug Glover asserts this about point of view in fiction:
Point of view is the mental modus operandi of the person who is telling or experiencing the story--most often this is the protagonist. This mental modus operandi is located in a fairly simple construct involving desire, significant history and language overlay. The writer generally tries to announce the desire, goal or need of the primary character as quickly as possible. the key here is to make this desire concrete and simple.
This week’s Write the Book Prompt is to look at the point of view in what you are working on and ask yourself: is this character’s desire clear? Is it concrete and simple? Do I introduce it quickly enough? How might I improve on the early presentation of my point of view character?
Good luck with your work in the coming week, and tune in next week for another prompt or suggestion.
Music: Aaron Shapiro
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