Point of view isn't just a technical choice—it controls what your reader knows, feels, and notices. Here's how to choose the right POV for your story, and one pro trick for using it to break through a stuck draft.

You can write a whole novel in first person and still violate POV if your narrator knows something they couldn’t possibly know. You can write in omniscient third and still fail if you head-hop without purpose. That’s why I made The POV Lock.