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Nine Month Novel Week 7: Digging Into Close Third POV

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Choosing a voice to tell a story in is one of the hardest decisions for me whenever I start writing a new novel. I have a love for well-written first person (as I think I mentioned last week) but am also keenly aware of the challenges and limitations that first person POV has to offer the writer.

Enter James Wood’s book, How Fiction Works.