How to Write Deep POV
And why it will increase readers’ emotional connection with your characters
You might have heard writers or editors suggest you use deep POV in your novels. What do they mean, and why are they recommending this?
When you start planning a novel, one of the decisions you must make is what point of view you will write the story in. Do you have one main character and the story will be told from that one character’s point of view? Is this a story with two or more characters, and you want to jump from one character’s head to the other? Will you tell the story in first person or third person (the two most common POVs)?
The reader will experience the story through your character; therefore, your POV choice impacts the experience they will have and how they will process the events that happen in the plot. Deep POV is when you filter everything from the POV character’s perspective. You put the reader inside the head of the protagonist and allow the reader to intimately feel, sense, and think what that character thinks.
How to write deep POV
· Let the reader hear the characters’ thoughts — stay in the character’s voice. When experiencing a scene, use the character’s style of speaking, tone, and personality come through the narrative.
