If you've been hanging around the Itch for any length of time, you'll know that I think the creeping Creative Writing orthodoxy that you can't change point of view except between chapters is nonsense. (Click here if you're not so sure what we're on about when we talk about point of view.) It's a "rule" which has only been invented in the last twenty years or so, peddled by would-be writers don't know good writing when they see it, and, I suspect, writing teachers who don't know how to teach it. But how you handle point of view really does...
  
    
    
    
        Published on November 23, 2014 04:59