5 Tips To Show Time Passing In Deep Point Of View

Man holding newspaper checking his watch. Text reads: SHOW the passage of time without breaking deep point of view.

I was mining through the comments section on the blog, and this one came up a couple of times: how do you show the passage of time in a story without using author intrusion or telling? This is a tricky one that trips up a lot of writers trying to learn deep point of view.

For writers who grew up reading more distant point of views, it feels natural to have the author voice step in and explain or summarize that time has passed. There’s no author voice in deep point of view.

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Published on August 25, 2023 13:39
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