4 essays
Point of View
Every first-person narrator is unreliable. The question isn't whether your narrator lies — it's whether you, the writer, know which lies they're telling.
Point of View
Third person limited has a range — from reporterly distance to almost-first-person intimacy. The sentence-level difference is smaller than most writers think.
Point of View
The two workhorse point-of-view techniques of modern fiction, what they actually do differently, and how to choose between them on a line-by-line basis.
Point of View
A close read of three unforgettable openings — and the quiet decisions the authors made before the first sentence ever hit the page.