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I recently talked about using the five senses to help you SHOW vs TELL in your writing. Now let’s talk about POV shifts. What are POV (point of view) shifts? That’s when a scene switches from one character’s POV to another. There are a few rules of thumb and I’m probably misquoting them but I …

Note: I don’t claim to be an authority…LOL, but I thought I’d share my thoughts on the subject and how I approach it. It seems like a lot of things we’re taught NOT to do in writing can all be boiled down to just a few words: Use the five senses. Yeah, I know that …

I’m currently in finishing up a huge edit I’ve done to the beginning of one of the mainstream novels I’m working on. I was discussing this painful process with a friend and she put it well, saying…”Some authors need those first few chapters to “feel” their way through the story, to build it…then they have …