Point of view decides what your reader knows and when they know it. These posts cover choosing first, third, or omniscient perspective, controlling narrative distance, and avoiding the head-hopping that quietly confuses readers.
Fiction WritingJune 16, 2026
Most writers who try to write a nonhuman character just put a human in a costume. Writing a real alien, animal, or AI point of view means subtracting yourself, one assumption at a time, until what is left is a…
DialogueFebruary 20, 2026
Strip the dialogue tags and nobody can tell who's talking. Fix flat dialogue with psychology-driven voice, subtext, and the POV choice that shapes your entire novel.
Fiction WritingFebruary 14, 2026
Few moments in reading match the jolt of realizing your narrator has been lying to you. Done well, it turns a reader into a detective and a straight plot into a labyrinth of doubt. Done badly, it just feels like…
Fiction WritingFebruary 11, 2026
Choosing a point of view feels easy until you are 150 pages in and realize you have been head-hopping, or describing things your narrator could never see. POV consistency breaks at novel length precisely because it looks trivial. Here is…
AI and WritingFebruary 11, 2026
I use AI every day across 113+ published books and 54+ ghostwriting projects, and I have spent hundreds of hours writing handbooks on AI-assisted fiction, documenting exactly where it helps and where it fails. The short version: it will not…
Book CoachingFebruary 10, 2026
I have spent forty-five years writing one fantasy series, Peacekeeper, longer than I have done almost anything else. It taught me more about world-building and magic systems than any craft book could. Here is what nearly half a century inside…
Fiction WritingFebruary 8, 2026
A busy street through a dog's eyes is not signs and storefronts; it is exhaust, a wall of noise, the dart of feet, the same scene rebuilt entirely from instinct and sensation. Writing an animal's POV means abandoning human-centered thinking,…
Character DevelopmentFebruary 8, 2026
Powers, a villain, a saved city: superhero fiction looks easy, and that is the trap. The stories that endure use the extraordinary to dig into ordinary human problems. Here are ten craft decisions, from characters readers actually care about to…
Fiction WritingDecember 8, 2025
Point of view controls what a reader can know, feel, and trust. How to pick the one that serves the story instead of fighting it.
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