{"id":46042,"date":"2019-03-28T15:30:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T19:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=46042"},"modified":"2019-03-30T22:04:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T02:04:45","slug":"keeping-it-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/keeping-it-close\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping it Close (in Perspective)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Mythcreants<\/em> EIC Chris Winkle has a new blog post on using a close perspective, i.e.: getting inside your character&#8217;s head. &#8220;Close perspective brings the audience closest to\u00a0feeling like the story is happening to them,&#8221; Winkle explains.<\/p>\n<p>Close narration requires the writer to be in tune with their protagonist&#8217;s feelings and experiences throughout the story. The writer also should be careful about cheating by withholding from the reader information the narrator knows. While holding back information can create a big reveal scene, it might also throw your reader out of your story.<\/p>\n<p>Another major challenge is showing what happens to your narrator, what they feel, and what they experience, without relying on telling phrases. Winkle has a number of good examples of how to describe your narrator&#8217;s experiences through action and feeling.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, the biggest trick is maintaining a consistent perspective and not accidentally drifting into distant third-person. Winkle offers paragraphs written both ways, as well as advice for keeping it straight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythcreants.com\/blog\/narrating-a-close-point-of-view\/\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@anthony-derosa-39577?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Anthony DeRosa<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/grayscale-photography-of-person-at-the-end-of-tunnel-211816\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythcreants EIC Chris Winkle has a new blog post on using a close perspective, i.e.: getting inside your character&#8217;s head. &#8220;Close perspective brings the audience closest to\u00a0feeling like the story is happening to them,&#8221; Winkle explains. Close narration requires the writer to be in tune with their protagonist&#8217;s feelings and experiences throughout the story. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,484],"tags":[452,556,467],"class_list":["post-46042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-craft-work","tag-craft","tag-perspective","tag-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46519,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46042\/revisions\/46519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}