How to Start Writing Your Novel, part 4
Step 4: Establish the Point of View
Welcome to part four in the six-part series How to Start Writing Your Novel.
Today, we’re talking about point of view. Point of view encompasses two questions:
Who is telling the story?
From what distance?
Do you have a first person narrator at the center of the action, an omniscient narrator who can access the thoughts of any character at any time, a limited third person narration that sticks closely to one character? Do you have multiple narrators telling the story from different angles, with the point of view shifting chapter by chapter?