More on POV and Character Traits

On Monday, I talked about ways to handle self-description using Deep Point of View. Today, I’d like to look at a few more examples.

I recently read a book where the POV character (hero) ran his callused fingers over the heroine. (And, for the record, the author used the word callous instead of callus, which is another matter entirely. I’ve made the same mistake, and only learned the difference when Word refused to let me write “callouses”.)

Yet there was no internal thought from him as to why...