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Make The Most Of Sensory Detail In Deep POV

Using sensory details is something even new authors know they need to make the most of! With Deep point of view, your use of sensory details needs to level up. Using sensory details is one way to avoid cliché and pull your reader deeper into the story while being super efficient with your words.

Sensory Details Help Answer the WHY

Authors using limited/close third or first person may also lean into using sensory details quite a lot, but in deep POV you need sensory details because you’ve ...

Making The Most Of Sensory Detail In Deep POV

Using sensory details is something even new authors know they need to make the most of! With Deep point of view, your use of sensory details needs to level up. Using sensory details is one way to avoid cliché and pull your reader deeper into the story while being super efficient with your words.

Sensory Details Help Answer the WHY

Authors using limited/close third or first person may also lean into using sensory details quite a lot, but in deep POV you need sensory details because you’ve ...

4 Tips For Rewriting In Deep Point Of View With Examples

You asked for it! Let’s dive into some examples so you can see a deep point of view rewrite in action!

From time to time I ask my audience what kind of content would help them learn best, and every single time I get the same answer: examples. I dove through the cobwebs into a couple of manuscript files on my hard drive written in the early 2000s (back when I thought I had deep pov figured out and these manuscripts prove I had wildly missed the mark).

I often go over these kinds of example...

Mastering Character Description Without Info Dumps In Deep POV

One of the more popular posts on this blog is how to spot info dumps that interrupt the effect of deep POV. But I wanted to focus specifically on how to avoid info dumps in deep POV as it relates to describing characters for readers. The feedback I consistently get from readers is please include more examples, so today is all about examples and rewrites. This is part 1. Let’s go!

In deep POV, an info dump becomes any instance where the narrator/writer voice intrudes into the story to give...

5 Tips To Show Time Passing In Deep Point Of View

I was mining through the comments section on the blog, and this one came up a couple of times: how do you show the passage of time in a story without using author intrusion or telling? This is a tricky one that trips up a lot of writers trying to learn deep point of view.

For writers who grew up reading more distant point of views, it feels natural to have the author voice step in and explain or summarize that time has passed. There’s no author voice in deep point of view.

If the goa...

How To Revise For Deep POV

So, you’ve decided (or been told) to revise or rewrite your manuscript into deep POV. Congrats!! Once you go deep, you never go back! But WOW!! Every writer facing this decision is justifiably intimidated by the mountain of work you now seem to be facing. You’re not alone! I was asked in my free Facebook group to break down the process behind rewriting or revising for deep POV.

How Deep Do You Want To Go: Genre Conventions?

This is the first fundamental question you must ask yourself. ...

When To Use Deep POV In Fiction By Genre

Deep POV is a popular stylistic writing technique that aims to remove the narrative/psychic distance between readers and the POV character. Deep POV’s goal is to immerse the reader in a real-time, lived-experience of the character’s emotional journey. The reader experiences the story as the character lives it out giving the reader has a front-row seat in the character’s brain. Obviously, I’m a big fan of deep POV, but realistically it’s not the best choice for EVERY story, nor is it a style ...

When To Use Deep POV In Fiction

Deep POV is a popular stylistic writing technique that aims to remove the narrative/psychic distance between readers and the POV character. Deep POV’s goal is to immerse the reader in a real-time, lived-experience of the character’s emotional journey. The reader experiences the story as the character lives it out giving the reader has a front-row seat in the character’s brain. Obviously, I’m a big fan of deep POV, but realistically it’s not the best choice for EVERY story, nor is it a style ...

How To Add Emotion In Fiction

Learning to write in deep point of view isn’t easy — not for most writers at any rate. It’s so tempting just to tell the reader what’s going on, how the character feels, what the character wants/prioritizes. Instead, if we can stretch ourselves and learn to SHOW instead of tell, immerse the reader in the character’s emotional journey, readers develop an emotional connection readers can’t get enough of. The glue that makes deep pov work, that collects all the threads together into a cohesive ...

Why Deep POV Isn’t Working And How To Fix It

Many blogs repeat the same four to six points on writing in deep POV, so you read those and think – heh, that doesn’t look too hard. But your efforts continually fall short with beta readers, critique partners and editors. They say ‘go deeper’ and you scratch your head – but you DID go deeper. Let’s dive into the most common reasons deep POV isn’t working for newer writers and look at some solutions.

**This post got super long, so I’ve split it into parts.**

Point Of View Problems...