Narrative voice is emotion coming through on the page—it’s passion, it’s opinion, it’s personality. Importantly, narrative voice can change depending on the story’s tone and the character’s perspective. Partially a deliberate choice by the author and partially subconscious, voice is an accumulation of what we read and watch, the culture we grew up in, the people we know, and our attitudes about the world. Voice can also be shaped through practice and attention. Here, I provid

Writing a novel with multiple points of view can be challenging, but in this interview on the Story Garden YouTube channel, author Marie...

Second-person point of view involves telling a story through the pronoun “you.” Compared to first-person (I, my) and third-person (she,...

Third person (he, she, they) is one of the standard points of view for writing fiction. In this video, I’ll explore the advantages and...

Most writers are already familiar with the definitions of first, second, and third person, but in this three-part series, I’ll delve...