Think of your story like a puzzle. We don’t put pieces together in a specific order. Some people dive in, some look for corners or edges, working inward. The full picture will come together eventually—just start building out the parts you can easily “see” and let it take you from there.
This post is from the Friday Tip series previously posted on Twitter.
What many don’t realize is that omniscient points of view are like a storyteller who can see your entire story from start to finish and is relaying it to your reader. They may tell everything, they may withhold for suspense, but however they (the omniscient narrator) chooses to tell the story, they are in essence a singular narrative voice who is delivering the tale to us.
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