John Dean – Crime Writer

So, you are an emerging writer seeking to get your narrator’s Point Of View right. Here is the opening to the section on the subject in John Dean’s new book about creating fiction – On Writing – which can be purchased in ebook and paperback formats on Amazon and may help.

“One of the most important elements of creating characters is Point of View (often referred to as POV), the technique which gives the reader a sense of what characters are thinking. There are three ways of describing a character’s POV, one of which is through what the person says and does. If a character shudders when they see a spider, you know what they think of spiders.”