Walking shorts Sentence Examples

You love watching baseball, but you don’t like the little scoreboard in the corner of your screen. How can one little logo capture the drama of a gripping baseball game? It can’t — which is why Little League scorekeepers, Major League scorekeepers, and hardcore baseball fans prefer tracking the action with their own scorecard. Once you know the shorthand for baseball scorecards, you’ll never look at that little scoreboard on your screen again.

Point of view, or perspective, is the lens through which you tell your story. For example, you might tell an entire story through the eyes of the central character. In that case, you’ll read a lot of, “I thought I was going to die. I ran down to the store in such a flurry, I didn’t even notice him in my wake. Was he coming after me?”

Or, you might take on an all-knowing lens and tell the story through several characters’ eyes. In that case, you’ll read things like, “Jake took his seat beside her in the massive hall. It was so cold, he wondered if she could hear his teeth chatter. Elizabeth glanced at him out of her periphery. She wondered what that scent was emanating off him.”

Exciting, right? Point of view is to writers what clay is to sculptors. Let’s talk a little bit more about first, second, and third-person perspective. Then we’ll figure out how to use point of view in a way that will allow your writing to take flight.