Download This Worksheet (PDF) This exercise is a favourite with English teachers everywhere, but its use isn’t limited to exploring POV characters. You can also use this worksheet to gain some perspective in your day-to-day life. Here are some point of view prompts you might try… Rewrite your day from someone else’s point of view. Rewrite… Read More
Download This Writing Worksheet (PDF) We’ve brainstormed point of view before, but once you’ve chosen your viewpoint, there are still many more decisions to make as to your narrator, and your narrator’s voice. Whether your narrator is a character in the story, or a version of your authorial self, it helps to make these… Read More
Download This Writing Worksheet (PDF) When it comes to writing dialogue, you could do worse than follow the rules of Just a Minute: no hesitation, no repetition, no deviation. Theatre scripts provide excellent inspiration for good dialogue, being composed of little else, and having been written with speech at the forefront, without film’s excessive reliance on visual… Read More
Experimenting with different points of view can be great fun and hugely rewarding, but settling on a point of view for a long piece? A little scary. Download this Worksheet (PDF) These four worksheets can help you weigh the pros and cons of various point of view techniques, and help you decide. For a comprehensive overview of… Read More
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