How Not to Keep Secrets From Readers

As most of my regular readers know, I’m a huge fan of Deep Point of View. That doesn’t mean shallower or more distant points of view are ‘wrong’ – only that I don’t care for them as much. I like to be connected to the characters.

One difficulty with using Deep POV is that if you’re in a character’s head, the reader should be aware of everything that character sees, hears, smells, feels, and thinks. You (and therefore the reader) become that character. So how do you keep a reader from finding...