How to Make First Person POV Successful - Part I

How to Make First Person POV Successful – Part I First Person is the most immediate and most intimate Point of View. It's also the hardest point of view to write from, and it requires a writer to master their storytelling craft. Seen through the eyes of the I, the story must be told convincingly as if the reader is there in the narrator's head. The almighty I is an important authority in the story, but is I always reliable and always the main character? These issues, and much more, will be covered in Part I of this tutorial series. This tutorial is presented by Charlotte Robin Cook, an experienced publisher and story editor, and Jon James Miller, an award-winning screenwriter and first time novelist with Garbo's Last Stand, a novel told in dual-first person. In this 39-minute tutorial video, you'll discover: The important difference between First Person and Third Person How to render a compelling, First Person character How to distinguish Point of View (POV) from Point of Narrati