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First Person POV: How Many Are Too Many “I”s?

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You decide to write your story in first-person and run the text through an application such as ProWritingAid or Grammarly. Or maybe you submit it to a weekly critique session. You receive feedback that you have X number of successive “I” references in your story. You fret: “This is first-person! …

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Book Series Review: Circus of Unusual Creatures

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Tammie Painter is the author of The Circus of Unusual Creatures series I have recently been binge reading. Not such a binge since there are only four books in the series so far. The narrator of the stories is Duncan, aka Brutus Fangwrath, Deadliest Dragon in the West. He loves …

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The Six Narrative Perspectives

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As a writer who has been critiqued and often critiques other authors, point-of-view (POV) is a common topic. However, talking about POV is not enough because it is intertwined with the overall narrative perspective of the work. That perspective is a mix-and-match of several concepts that should stay fairly consistent …

Point Of View

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Trends In a list of the twenty most popular science fictions books of 2019, 60% were written in third-person point-of-view (POV), 40% in 1st person and none in second person. Although the story in each novel is very inventive, the authors adhere to the rules of point-of-view, much like punctuation …