Thank you for having me, Terry.
I’d like to share some thoughts about the bane of my existence when I first began writing full time—point of view.
You see, I’d majored in English and retired as a technical writer. So I knew how to craft a sentence. What I didn’t know was the craft of writing. Character arc? Conflict resolution? Dialog tags and beats? GMC? Isn’t that a truck? Point of view? After all the classical literature I’d studied, I certainly knew about that. I was good to go.
Yes, folks, I was blissfully ignorant.
My soon-to-be agent phoned to tell me I had some real point of view issues. When I told her I was using third person omniscient, I’m sure I heard her fall out of her chair laughing.
My learning curve just shot upward at a forty-five degree angle.
Gee, and I thought I knew so much.
