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Daily archive for July 7, 2021

Picking a Viewpoint Character

On July 7, 2021   /   Writing  
Tags: characterization, characters, starting, viewpoint

For a lot of stories, the choice of viewpoint character seems obvious, either because the writer starts with a character and develops the plot later, or because they start with a plotline in which one particular character is at the center of the action. I said “seems

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