WRITING & PUBLISHING

Focus Your Writing Like a Camera

Narrative perspective involves more than POV

Aimee Liu
7 min readJul 10, 2023

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Most writers think of POV as the First-, Second-, or Third-person voice telling a story. But point of view also refers more broadly to your authorial vantage point, or narrative perspective. And in that sense, it’s a much more nuanced issue.

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Aimee Liu

Author, Asian-American novels (Glorious Boy), nonfiction on eating disorders (Gaining), writing, wellness. Published @Hachette. MFA & more@ aimeeliu.net