Points of View

Robertinstalled thenewly-codedvoice-activated artificial intelligence programme onto the smartphone andreadied himself to take it for a ride. Pulling up thelatest exercise on the Creative Writing Masters course he had justsplashed outfor hedrew a breath and spoke“What is first person point of view?”

The voice came back, clear as a bell, and he smiled. As headjusted the volume downa touch, he heard the phone say “In a first-person narrative, the story is revealed through a narrator who is also...