Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View by Jill Elizabeth Nelson

Deep Point of View anchors your readers inside the point of view character(s) of your novel. This handbook shows you how to perform the transformation from ordinary narrative to deep narrative in clear, easy-to-master steps. I invite you to sweep your writing to the next level with a tec Dear Novelist: Would you like your readers to live your stories, not merely read them? Deep Point of View anchors your readers inside the point of view character(s) of your novel. By Jill Elizabeth Nelson I received a gift of several novels-new-but most had been published about 10 years ago. When I began reading, I was amazed at how Christian writers developed their craft since then. Deep Point of View is one way they’ve changed, and it’s the latest technique to make ho-hum writing spellbinding.

Deep Point of View anchors your readers inside the point of view character(s) of your novel. I invite you to sweep your writing to the next level with a technique that creates immediacy and intimacy with your readers and virtually eliminates show/don't tell issues. My Best to You, Jill.

About book: The problem that Ms. Nelson gives us is that her take on Deep Point of View being something different than regular Point of View as we know it, is only supported by examples from her own writing. Why has she not delved into the best of literature to find examples and show us that there, Point of View would fall flat. or that great writers, other than she, use this technique

Deep Point of View anchors your readers inside the point of view character(s) of your novel. This handbook shows you how to perform the transformation from ordinary narrative to deep narrative in clear. This booklet is very short, includes a lot of worksheets. It shouldn't have been made into a book but given to readers on the author's blog. It was way overpriced. I am studying point of view and was intrigued by the premise of this book. Jill Nelson describes a specific pov technique she calls "deep pov" and she provides many examples of the difference between this deep pov and shallow pov. She also lists the benefits of deep pov. But she never really describes exactly WHAT deep pov IS.

Mastering Deep Point of View transformed my writing. I have also placed the comprehensive body of this teaching into a brief handbook with the same title as this article, Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View.

Jill Elizabeth provided contrasting examples of how to and how not to write. She gave many lessons that allowed the reader to apply the principles presented before moving to the next point. The book was helpful-although short The problem that Ms. Why has she not delved into the best of literature to find examples and show us that there, Point of View would fall flat or that great writers, other than she, use this technique.

by Jill Elizabeth Nelson. Published 2012 by Createspace. ISBN 13. 9781470063856. More by Jill Elizabeth Nelson. Created October 14, 2016. Download catalog record: RDF, JSON, OPDS.

The thing I found the most helpful was the exercises at the end of each chapter and the real world examples utilized throughout the book. To me, that made the concepts sink in easier. I have to see how things work, rather than just be told how they work.

The best book on the subject is Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View by Jill Elizabeth Nelson. So, to recap: what point of view is Ender's Game written in? It's written in deep third point of view, from the perspective of the protagonist Ender. It’s All About Voice. How can we tell that Ender’s Game is deep POV and not, say, third person limited with a narrator? The voice. It’s not just that we see only what Ender sees.