The more I thought about it, the more puzzled I got. So today I am giving myself a brief refresher -
First Person: story is told by "I"
Second Person: a narrator describes the readers' thoughts, words and actions "You feel your heart race"
Third Person: the story is told from inside the character's head. "she remembered the day"
Third Person Multiple POV. The story is sometimes told from a secondary character's POV as well as the main character.
Omniscient Narrator: As if God tells the story, seeing into every character's deepest motives and thoughts.
Author Intrusion when the author slips personal comments into the scene. Definitely a No-No!
Mixed Viewpoint when first and third POV are both used. Useful in time slip and romance novels.
In all cases, limit information to what the POV character can know. Avoid head-hopping. Give clear signals when changing POV with a physical break or scene break. Name the POV character in the first sentence after the change.
This year so far has been very wet and the result is rampant growth of trees and shrubs. Paths are overgrown and lost, so I thought today's pic was rather appropriate.
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