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This short but excellent book was everything that I’ve needed as a struggling advocate of deep POV. I’d attempted to go deep a few times over recent years and tried to use guidance in online articles. Sometimes my writing felt as though it was getting deeper, other times it felt like another failed attempt.
Now, at last, I have a convenient guide on my desk. And as I was reading her book, I was writing another short story, and, with Lisa Hall-Wilson’s guidance, phrases traced salt-r ...more
This short but excellent book was everything that I’ve needed as a struggling advocate of deep POV. I’d attempted to go deep a few times over recent years and tried to use guidance in online articles. Sometimes my writing felt as though it was getting deeper, other times it felt like another failed attempt.
Now, at last, I have a convenient guide on my desk. And as I was reading her book, I was writing another short story, and, with Lisa Hall-Wilson’s guidance, phrases traced salt-r ...more
This was an excellent how-to guide about "digging deeper" to write prose that fosters a tight connection with readers and plucks their emotional strings like well-tuned fiddles. Exactly what every writer wants, right?
The author points out some of the ways writers inadvertently create a distance between readers and the story... by doing things like insinuating their own voices where they don't belong or dropping unnecessary info bombs right in the middle of the action. (You know... that stuff mo ...more
The author points out some of the ways writers inadvertently create a distance between readers and the story... by doing things like insinuating their own voices where they don't belong or dropping unnecessary info bombs right in the middle of the action. (You know... that stuff mo ...more
My overall take away from this book is that it is an excellent guide for learning how to write in a very specific style. For me personally, using the tools and methods of deep POV have immense potential to increase the quality of my writing, but I honestly can't imagine writing an entire book this way.
I feel as though I need to read more about Deep POV and read more examples of books written entirely using only this method. At this point, it seems that this style of writing would work better fo ...more
I feel as though I need to read more about Deep POV and read more examples of books written entirely using only this method. At this point, it seems that this style of writing would work better fo ...more
Love this book. One of the best about writing. One of my favorite sections is right at the beginning where she talks about distance words, and then later subtext, using internal dialogue to deepen your characters point of view, how to use backstory as a character filter to enhance DPOV making it natural and an immersive flow within the story. I highly recommend.
Apr 08, 2019
Gerardine Gail
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Susan Oloier
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Susan
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Patricia
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