Seems So: Are Your Characters Misleading Your Readers?

By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy
Things might not always be what the seem. 

One of the many strengths of point of view (POV) is that readers get to experience the story world through the eyes of your POV character. And characters can assume incorrectly, have an unfair opinion, or just flat out be wrong. 
But sometimes ambiguity sneaks in there when you don't mean it to, and you're not actually saying what you intended to say.
Enter the word seemed.
Seemed isn't always what it seems. Sometimes it reads like an opinion the POV character is making, and others it reads like the author explaining what they know about the situation. And there's a wide gray area where those two overlap, due to narrative distance and point of view.  Continue ReadingWritten by Janice Hardy. Fiction-University.com