- 1. Complete the two early childhood memory exercises from What If...? View and Discuss This will help you develop a sense of the challenges of working with point of view in fiction.
- 2. Bonus Optional Task - Submit your own point of view exercise View and Discuss Help provide others with writing exercises that don't have to be purchased in a text.
- 3. Complete the selected story narration description exercise View and Discuss This will help you to better identify how other writers use point of view.
- 4. Develop your own point of view definition View and Discuss This will help you begin to think more concretely about the various aspects of point of view.
- 5. Look closely at the point of view used in your selected story View and Discuss Use the vocabulary you are developing for point of view in looking more closely at your selected story.
- 6. Practice your skills manipulating psychic distance View and Discuss Psychic distance is an important element of point of view, and here's your chance to learn how to control it.
- 7. Bonus Optional Task - Submit your own psychic distance exercise View and Discuss Help provide others with writing exercises that don't have to be purchased in a text.
- 8. Practice your skills in manipulating elements of point of view View and Discuss Here's your chance to practice shifting a number of different aspects of point of view.
- 9. Change the point of view of your selected story View and Discuss Rewrite the beginning of your selected story in a different point of view.
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posted message: Are you an experienced fiction writer or instructor with critical feedback on the Point of View section of the OpenFiction Project materials? I'd love to hear it.
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