Five Things That Are Harder To Overdo Than You Think
by Cat Rambo
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One of the things writers do best is second-guess themselves. We keep tweaking, twiddling, moving this word here, that word there, changing from present tense to past and back again. But there are aspects of writing that we may restrain ourselves from unnecessarily, because we think we’re overdoing them when we’re not.
Getting inside your character’s head: It’s okay to spend some time in there, even within the constraints …

Point of View: Whose Head Am I In?
by Louise Bohmer © 2009 All Rights Reserved
Next to verb tense, point of view is one of the hardest areas of story composition to master. I certainly haven’t mastered it yet, but I have developed strategies to help keep my point of view on track. In this short article, I hope to provide knowledge and examples to help other writers manage point of view issues.
Point of view describes from which person’s perspective the story is perceived. It’s a narrative mode. It is …