I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character, I become that character and identify with that character.
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It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.
When I'm writing from a character's viewpoint, in essence I become that character; I share their thoughts, I see the world through their eyes and try to feel everything they feel.
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.
When you pick up a book, everyone knows it's imaginary. You don't have to pretend it's not a book. We don't have to pretend that people don't write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn't the only way to do it. Once you're writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.
I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.
I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.
When I read a character that I really, really love, I know immediately what they look like. It's like I want to 100 percent become that person.
When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.