Gramer Girl here, I'm Minyon Fogredy and you can think of me as your friendly guide to

the English language.

Writing, History, Rules, and Cool Stuff.

Today, I have a meeting middle to help you understand different points of view in writing.

A tidbit about words at the intersection of relationships and technology.

A family-like story about daywalkers.

And a listener's story about apostrophes on baseball cards.

What is point of view?

For fans of the book, the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, let's think of point of view

as the babblefish of literature.

It's a universal translator turning your brainwaves into the perspective through which your readers

will understand your story.

Luckily, it isn't wet, it isn't slimy, and you really don't have to stick it in your

ear.

There are three main points of view that you can use, all with different strengths and

weaknesses.

First person, I Rock, we rock.

In first person past tense, the problem is time.

The story is told from some indefinite point in the future, looking backward, and the

viewpoint character already knows how everything turns out.

A character using first person past tense would say something like, I reached for his arm

three seconds too late.

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