How to use point of view

How to write a crime novel, episode 15

How do you use point of view in your crime novel? And, importantly, how do you avoid misusing point of view and looking like a bad writer? Here’s how to use point of view.

Here’s how to use point of view

• Make sure you have only one point of view, or POV, in a chapter
• If you must, you can have different POVs in one chapter and then in the next
• But don’t switch POV within a chapter, even though some famous writers sometimes do it. You’ll look incompetent.

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