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🗓️ 15 March 2020
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Knowing your story's ending will help you know the right answer to almost any POV question. Let's look at 5 questions about using multiple POVs.
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0:00.0 | This is K.M. Loyland and you are listening to the 498 episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors |
0:14.8 | Podcast. A couple weeks ago in the episode about all the professional resources |
0:20.3 | I use in my work as a writer, I mentioned Pod Tone, the company with which I've been consulting |
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1:12.6 | If you have a podcast of your own and this service sounds like it would be as helpful |
1:16.6 | to you as it has been to me, you can check it out at podtone.com. And now I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast five questions about how to |
1:27.3 | balance multiple POVs in your story. The opportunities and pitfalls offered by multiple POBs are both the joy and the |
1:37.8 | bane of the writer's life. On the one hand, using multiple points of view to tell a story, seems like it makes the job so much easier. |
1:46.3 | No limits. Fantastic. |
1:48.7 | But on the other hand, once you start trying to juggle multiple POWs, it can seem like all these moving pieces only |
1:56.7 | make things that much more difficult. |
1:59.6 | One of the most common questions I receive on the subject is simply how many POVs should a story have? |
2:06.0 | To which the answer is that there really aren't any rules. |
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