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Everyone Needs A Complete Guide to Point of View
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The Most Useful Books About Point of View
Further Reading
I’m not even calling it a Bibliography.
Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction, The University of Chicago Press, 1961, second ed. 1983. For those wanting to go deeply into all points of view, this is the standard work. Ch...
Experimenting with POVs
Years ago, I was asked to teach a one-day workshop nearby Borough Market.
The students were from the American University in London, which used to spam the tube with adverts. I’d occasionally wondered why these had disappeared. Checking now...
On Douglas Adams' POV
This is fun.
In Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams invents a new POV — a tense for future events that have already happened, repeatedly, and are also happening at this precise moment, too.
That’s because this tense is re...
On Muriel Spark's POV
When I asked Muriel Spark how she wrote, she said, ‘I think of the book first, and then I strike.
Her answers were usually short.
This one, I think, explained why her novels are so clear, so easy to read and so mysterious — and therefore...
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