POV and person…

While I’ve written about this topic before, I still see a lot of confusion out there. Let’s go over the basic ideas again.

Most fiction is written in a main character’s point of view (POV): The fictional world of a novel is seen from the eyes, ears, and other senses of one or several protagonists, or even a villain’s. But that POV can change from chapter to chapter or even section to section, either because there isn’t just one main character. Authors (even famous ones) mangle POV, their “head-h...