POV Writing Tips

Hiya,

I want to talk about POV. POV or Point of view of your story is the narrator’s position in relation to the story being told. (That’s the definition, ha, ha.)
In layman’s terms, the Point of view means the perspective of the narrator or the person telling the story. “Person telling the story.”
So, what does POV mean when you’re writing a fictional story?
Well, when you’re writing a story with more than one POV, you can write it in several different ways. The important thing is to make sure that your POV’s are clear. Let me explain.
When writing your novel, you have to make sure that you are not jumping back and forth between several characters in your story without proper pauses or chapter changes. If you do, the reader will get lost and lose interest. And yes, I will say that phrase a lot because I had to learn the hard way myself how to properly write my POVs, so I’m just trying to help you.
Here we go!
The first way to change POV is by each chapter. For example, in Adele Wolf, my first novel, I wrote Adele for one chapter and Jake for the next. It clean and easy for the reader to follow.
The second way is to have more than one POV in the same chapter. But you have to remember if you are doing that, you need to make sure and separate your POV’s by a new paragraph. If you don’t the reader will most likely get lost and lose interest. Lol, see, I told you I would say that again.
Here are some websites that you can check out, as well as research on your own. The more you learn, the better you will write.
https://www.thenovelry.com/blog/point-of-view-examples
https://bystacydawn.blogspot.com/2018/10/demystifying-deeper-pov-part-one-dont.html
So, I hope this helps. Take it or leave it, and as always, happy reading and writing!