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Sunday, April 3, 2016

Write Better Fiction: When A POV Doesn’t Reach A Goal


Today on Write Better Fiction we’ll cover What happens if the POV doesn’t achieve her scene goal. Write Better Fiction is a process to help you critique your own manuscript and give yourself feedback. This will help you improve your novel, so you’re ready to submit it to an editor. 
If you’ve been reading this series, you know I’m describing a spreadsheet I created to evaluate each scene of a novel. I use this spreadsheet after a solid draft to evaluate each scene and revise it as needed.
This week I’ll over POV goal failure.
To shorten the heading in the spreadsheet, I’ve called the column “Outcome if POV Fails.” I know this means what happens if POV doesn’t achieve his goal.
This question is sometimes hard to answer. If the question is hard to answer, the goal may not relate to the overall plot. If nothing happens because…
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