Write a story from the first point of view of one of the secondary characters.
Who is the main character?
Who is the secondary character?
Why are they in the roles they are in?
Tag: point of view
Her
Write a story from a woman’s point of view.
What is different about a woman’s point of view?
How is a story of a woman different from a man?
What would happen in stories if the genders were switched?
The Crazy
Write a story from the point of view of a crazy person.
Why are they considered crazy?
What makes there view of the world so odd?
What can they do about it? What do others try and do about it?
Non-Human Point of View
Write a story from a non-human point of view.
What about the point of view makes it not human?
How can this story relate to humans?
How can making this more alien, make it more human?
Party
Write a story about people attending a party.
What point of view do you use for the story?
Do you use many peoples’ points of view?
How wild is the party?
Two or More
Experiment with writing a story from 2 or more characters points of view.
How many characters are you seeing the world through?
How does this help/hinder the story?
What can be changed to help the story?
Animal View
Write a story from the point of view of an animal.
What differences should there be?
What changes do you have to do to make the animal more understandable to the reader?
Are there any humans in the story? Do the animals understand humans?
Statue View
Write a story from the point of view of a statue watching the people in the town they live in.
New Point of View
Experiment today, write a story from a point of view you don’t normally use.
use one of the below points of view:
- First Person – some one telling there story
- Second Person – someone telling you what you do
- Third Person – limited – some limitation that only lets people only see some things
- Third Person – subjective multiple viewpoints – similar to limited but may follow multple people
- Third Person – omniscient – a narrator or god telling the story to others.
Water Invasion part 2
Take the story from yesterday and rewrite the story from the other side of the invasion.
Does the story work from the new point of view?
Does the story become something more from the new point of view?