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A documentary note for writers and scriptwriters who want to decide whose point of view carries a story. It sets out eight questions based on one chapter of a 1908 book, with a table of where each topic sits. It is a reading of one Project Gutenberg file, untested, and makes no claim the period views are current.
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Hamilton (1908) on choosing who tells a story: eight questions drawn from Chapter VII of Materials and Methods of Fiction
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A documentary note for writers and scriptwriters who want to decide whose point of view carries a story. It sets out eight questions based on one chapter of a 1908 book, with a table of where each topic sits. It is a reading of one Project Gutenberg file, untested, and makes no claim the period views are current.
Useful starting points
- Mark every scene your chosen narrator could not have witnessed; that is where a single viewpoint most often breaks.
- Decide early whose mind the reader may enter and whose they may not, then hold to it.
- Look for narration that states a judgment a scene could show instead.
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