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16.34: Novels Are Layer Cakes

Writing Excuses

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The Manipulation of P O V

Am, one of your best tools for stacking that information is the manipulation of p o v. One of my favourite tools is free and direct speech - you can have the narrator just say something to the reader even if it's in third person. You know, you can pull back and go omniscient for a moment. Ah these are the kinds of things that you can be thinking about and manipulating when you're playing with that opening.

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