(More) Solutions for Writing Middle-Grade Characters: Part 3

Welcome! Thank you for coming back for Part Three of my series: Solutions for Writing Middle-Grade Characters. In this post, I’ve added three more solutions, with this week’s focus being on verbal development. Unlike the dialogue-focused article, this week I shift direction more toward how children grow and change over time as they age. I …

Five Tips to Troubleshoot First-Person POV

With first-person point of view, it’s often relatively easy to write a close perspective compared to third person. With third-person-limited point of view, it’s quite possible to do, but third person comes with a few common pitfalls, namely head hopping or accidental shifts into omniscient POV. If done well, third person limited can feel as …