Story Genius: How to Use Brain Science to Go Beyond Outlining and Write a Riveting Novel (Before You Waste Three Years Writing 327 Pages That Go Nowhere)

by Lisa Cron

This discussion often starts and stops with this very narrow mechanical definition, routinely presenting POV as a technical distinction, focusing on the different techniques for conveying someone’s point of view (form), without a word on how to come up with what, exactly, their point of view is, or how to then get it onto the page (content). It’s like limiting your discussion of fine wine to whether it’s best served in a goblet, a water glass, or a red Solo cup. But in this book, when we talk about your protagonist’s point of view, we’re not talking about whether you’re going to write, “I said” or “she said,” we’re talking about how your protagonist evaluates the world you’re going to toss her into.