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The article offers tips for knowing how and when to use multiple point of view (POV) characters in a manuscript, according to authors who regularly use multiple POVs. Jessica Goodman discusses how multiple POVs can help create suspense. Ellen Meeropol explains the advantages of multiple POVs. Adrianne Finlay uses multiple POVs to handle plot, character and theme sufficiently.

The article focuses on how fiction should be able to keep the reader interested. It discusses how language and communication is critical for authors and why setting a tempo and pacing is important, detailing the story elements like plot, how a slow-paced prose could create a character sketch. It also talks about the role of point of view in the narrative.

The article offers suggestions for world building in fiction writing. Topics discussed include the need to develop the world around the characters in the story and to take an ecological perspective on it; the importance of the point of view used in the narration of the story in world building; and the need to figure out the culture, society, and politics of the fictional world created for the story.

The article provides advice to writers on two topics, how to write a point of view (POV) character who is drastically different from oneself, and whether permission is needed to mention celebrities in fictional writing.

The article offers miscellaneous information on the short story contest along with its winner and the story. Topics include the story Leviathan and an interview with the author in which he states his inspiration from the experiences as an animal rights supporter. He explained using an anonymous character for first person plural account as a difficult point-of-view to write a story on a leviathan in the sea and mentioned the sense of urgency by pacing and active verbs storytelling technique.

The article discusses several misconceptions when writing children's book and how these can be corrected. Misconceptions or mistakes discussed include cluelessness in the difficulty of writing children's books, using the book as a means to teach good behavior to children, and stereotyping kids. Also discussed are the lack of importance given to point of view (POV), and the absence of suspense and conflict.

The article presents questions and answers related to writing, including short fiction and designation of change of point of view within a chapter.

An interview with Richard Todd and Tracy Kidder, co-authors of the book "Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction, Stories, and Advice From a Lifetime of Writing and Editing," is presented. Topics include how they started in writing, the issue of point of view, which they addressed in their book, and how they manage to shape a story from a vast amount of research. They also mentions the qualities that should be possessed by writers to sustain their career including perseverance, talent, and practice.

The article presents the author's writing strategies related to author's write in the second person. It mentions the things that should be focused on while writing as spend some time poking around the second-person point of view and also highlights the challenges that faced by writers during second-person point of view writing as immediacy.

The article offers suggestions on writing epistolary novels in the modern age. Topics discussed include less dialogue-driven, with more emphasis on thoughts, feelings, and emotions; authorial decision on use of letters, journal entries, ephemera throughout book or just in part; and using a first-person point of view in epistolary novels.

Not long ago, my fiction class was discussing a short story that needed some work. Various students piled on helpful suggestions about plot and character; the writer under scrutiny jotted [...]

The article focuses on the omniscience point of view (POV) of narrating a story. Topics discussed include benefits of omniscience point of view of narration such as very clear description of the character, author Anthony Varallo points out that in omniscience narrating, reader sense too much of the writer's hand in the story, and effaced author Catherine Ryan Hyde states that tell the story from more than one point of view will be more comfortable for the reader.

In this article, the author questions the validity of multiple points of view used by authors in a novel. According to the author, the term point of view is often used exactly as we use it and it refers to the character through which the reader experiences the story. The author asserts that by bringing in more perspectives the conflict in the story widens and there should be no arbitration in the determination to include them in a story.

The article focuses on using point of view (POV) of second person carefully while writing a book. Topics discussed include views of author Lise Haines regarding increased use of second-person POV by writing students in the U.S., advantages of second-person POV like helpful in addressing immediacy and ability to express character's consciousness through third person POV. Other topics include suggestions for writing a novel like keeping the character sympathetic.

The article outlines some of the questions asked by the author to his creative writing students which include the start of the story at very moment, the central conflict of the story, and the story meander. The author suggests going to library and reading the first page or first chapter to identify the point of the story. It also explains the common obstacles to good story chops including happily-ever-after all the time, runaway dialogue, and becoming a revision shark.

The article discusses the process and partnership of Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely in writing the book "All American Boys" which is in response to real-life brutalities suffered by African-American boys in the hands of police officers. Topics discussed include the emotional landscapes of its male characters, first-person writing point of view (POV), and the use of slang and dialogue in the book.

The article offers authors' insights on how they share their skills in writing personal essays together. Topics include the aspects of presenting their joint point of view, how they spend each other's time in writing which includes various works such as scanning news, calendar checking, and examining their personal lives which serves as their inspirations, and the aspects of the complementarity of their skills on being imaginative and factual.