Writing Point of View
What's "point of view" (POV)? It's the angle from which your story is seen, and it can be single, coming from a single character, or you can have an omniscient third-person narrator that sees and hears all. There is a second-person POV, but it's pretty tough to...
Feel Your Character
Writing characters is a tricky process. You don't want characters that are flat and stiff, but you don't want to go overboard and make them caricatures, either. So, you need to really think about who these people are and where they have been. One simple way to do it...
Writing Characters, Step-by-Step
If you're a fiction writer, you need three-dimensional characters. If your characters are flat and boring, you won't have a very good story. I like to start any story I write by creating my characters, or at least the main characters in my stories. In a children's...