How to Choose Your Story's Point of View

There's a lot that goes into choosing your story's point of view, from the qualities of your narrator to your book's genre, but because it's something that's very hard to change later on, it's also a choice to think carefully about! In this video, we'll be talking about the most common point of views--1st person, 2nd person, and the three types of 3rd person--but also the theory behind point of view, how it works, and why it's so important.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - What is point of view?
3:00 - Choosing your POV
4:02 - 1st person
6:14 - 2nd person
8:48 - 3rd person objective
9:16 - 3rd person limited
11:33 - 3rd person omniscient

LEARN MORE:
-How to Choose your Story's Tense: youtube.com/watch?v=-7x8pAkvrCs&t=3s
-Unreliable Narrators: youtube.com/watch?v=PIlijplYCOI

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