Almost a year ago I made this post:
A recent post on the First Three Sentences thread made me look back into it, and I read through some of the articles again. My opinion of deep POV changed several times as I learned about it, but eventually I realized it's one of those things that can be good or bad depending on how it's handled (isn't that everything related to writing?). From the second link I discovered a course. She has two modules that are always available—Foundations and Writing Emotions in Layers. I bit the bullet and signed on to both for a cool $70 USD. Ouch, but it's about the price of an expensive textbook or two.
I also bought a book called 5 Editors Tackle the 12 Fatal Flaws of Fiction Writing. Seems like a really good book in general, and a section of it deals with deep POV.
The reason I'm looking into this is because I need to learn how to write emotion better. That's one thing deep POV is really good for. However, many of the examples I run into are really overdone. I don't intend to write like that, or to overuse inner emotions or twitching facial expressions or any of the rest of what often comes across as melodramatic and overblown.
I'm also about to get The Emotion Thesaurus. Some really good stuff right at the beginning, that can be read in the Sample (it'll open automatically if you click the link), and then lots more in the entries.
- This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series My explorations into POV.
Series TOC
- Series: My explorations into POV
- Part 1: Switching between close and distant 3rd
- Part 2: I'm realizing how important it is to really understand POV
- Part 3: POV Chart
- Part 4: What's like omniscient, only different?
- Part 5: On transitioning between POVs
- Part 6: Inner Monologue—direct and indirect
- Part 7: Showing and Telling in Inner Monologue
- Part 8: Freely discoursing—indirectly
- Part 9: Going deeper into Deep POV
- Part 10: Getting Emotional
- This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series My explorations into POV.
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