Bob's Write from the Start: Deep 3rd Person

Bob's Write from the Start

Bob’s Write from the Start, a blog sharing the roller coaster ride of this renewing writer’s feelings and actual experiences, began March 2017. That January, I began with a two-sentence contribution to a local Writing Group. I am now a Guest Columnist for a local paper and have contributed to small and online magazines. My comments for new and renewing writers? Start by starting. Join a writing group. You are unique but not alone. Once you start work, you will not be in Kansas anymore.

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Deep 3rd Person

According to https://theeditorsblog.net, "Deep POV is third-person subjective taken a step farther than the normal.
The third-person subjective shows story through the eyes of one or more characters—one at a time, no head-hopping please.
Deep POV goes beyond that to take readers into the head and heart of a character, allowing the story to be seen and felt through the characters' experiences and history and thoughts and feelings."

Well, well, well. I will go back and check my Bugs in the Grass for head-hopping once again. It's one of my stories I can't seem to let go of -- for all its faults, it seems to me it has so much life. Of course, very often writers are the worst assessors, delusional even, regarding the quality and vitality of their pieces. I have t say, though, that my own experience of myself and of the reports of other writers is that our delusions tend to be on the "I don't think it's good" side of the ledger.

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Name: Bob's Write From The Start

Location: Sarnia, Ontario, Canada

Born, raised and living in Sarnia, Ontario, Bob Boulton began writing poetry, short stories and humorous articles for his high school newspaper in the period just after dinosaurs roamed the earth. His article on the mysteries of the Chess Club was particularly well-received. Bob’s excruciatingly naive teenage sonnet was published with positive mention in the high school yearbook. In University he wrote pretty much indecipherable essays on Existentialism and Phenomenology. Then, early in his working career, Bob also wrote short feature articles in the now-defunct (not his fault) Weston York Times. For this, he was paid $5.00 per article, which didn’t quite cover his transportation and parking costs. Then after a short break of thirty-five or forty years as an executive and leadership coach, Bob reactivated his passion for writing. The alternatives he considered were learning to yodel or trying to play the bagpipes. Bob’s loving and supportive family voted enthusiastically, and quickly, for writing.