The Deep POV Effect

In last month’s blog we looked back at the results of running a series [image error]of tests as specified in Marcy Kennedy’s cracking little book: “A busy writer’s guide to deep POV”. Most of the work I’ve done into deep POV has been with Mandestroy, and I thought that was pretty tight. But what did Marcy’s recommendations suggest? Well…

23% of the sentences had deep POV errors in them; and 31% of the word count was “infected”. Some sentences had three separate errors in them! And there were some pretty...