Rivet Your Readers with Deep Point of View

This book is a nice introduction on DPOV, but I was looking for much more and more in depth on the subject. If you don't know what a DPOV is, then this book is for you. If you're fimiliar with it, it will not give you depth you're looking for.

There are things the writer hasn't mentioned which I consider basics. I wish this writer would check with other writers to add to this small booklet and correct the author's mishaps.

Some of the examples given weren't that deep. Same expressions sounded like cliche. And anything that's overused will ruin that dream.

Some of the things just weren't explained right and confused me.

For example:

"We should not indicate to our reader what the POVC is feeling or thinking or doing before we have delivered the cause and effect always"!

Hmmm

I might agree with not telling the feeling, but the rest is misleading. It's if you would ask, "What came first?: an egg or a chicken?" Something has to come first.
Thoughts precede actions. But you don't have to write each thought before each action. Another rule in writing is to start with action and explain later.

And I don't see anything wrong with using prepositional phrases. That shouldn't even be taken into consideration. If a sentence is telling, naming an emotion, or violating the order, that's the reason why it isn't in DPOV.

And consider the following:

"A sigh heaved between my lips..."

I don't consider the above DPOV. Who thinks that way? If you're in the character's head and using DPOV, you wouldn't think that. I sighted works much better. A sigh doesn't leave from another part of the body. It's overwritten.

I found other sentences that the author said are written in DPOV, but for me they don't work well. They take me out of that dream. To write from a DPOV, you need to keep your reader dreaming.

This booklet is very short, includes a lot of worksheets. It shouldn't have been made into a book but given to readers on the author's blog. It was way overpriced.

I am currently at work on my first novel and when RIVET YOUR READERS WITH DEEP POINT OF VIEW popped up as "something I may be interested in," I added it to my in-box. (I was on a kick with writing reference books). In all honesty, I didn't love this book. It's a great booklet for beginner writers, but I really felt like I knew a lot of the presented material already. Many examples the author uses are right from her own novels, which I found to be less-than diplomatic. The book is short, too--so you can read it quickly--I finished it in a couple of hours. The author does do a good job of inserting quick "homework" paragraphs for you to re-write. But, personally I didn't want a workbook. I wanted a motivating writing reference that would stoke the creative fires.

My understanding of point-of-view (POV) is more along the lines of character development versus active/passive writing which is what RIVET YOUR READERS WITH DEEP POINT OF VIEW does. A quick and easy guide for self-teaching more active writing, but not recommended if you have a fairly good grasp on what makes good writing/reading.

I have been writing part-time for many years, and selling some of what I write, but this book showed me ways to improve my writing immensely. Editors would tell me to "Show, not tell," and I thought I knew what they meant, but Elizabeth Nelson has shown me a much deeper meaning to that phrase. I am applying her methods now, and my writing is already improving.

This is a short ebook, but well worth the cost for both beginning and more experienced writers.

This is a sparse sixty page clap-trap (a handbook, not a book) repeating "show, don't tell" from several perspectives. Each perspective is composed of a little advice, then examples drawn from the author's own not-well-written work, showing how it might have been even worse, and a few exercises for the reader. Might have made a decent article in a magazine.

I was disappointed in this book. First, it is very small and shallow. The information may be helpful for a beginning writer, but it has no depth.
Second, it is a thinly veiled promotion to sell her own books. She uses quotations from her own books, complete with telling us what award that book won, to illustrate her points. She also recommends we buy them to study great deep POV.
Sorry, but it isn't worth the money.

I was surprised to discover this is more of a lengthy pamphlet than a book. Perhaps the site showed how small this publication is, but apparently I did not look more carefully in my hurry to add it to an order.

I was surprised to discover this is more of a lengthy pamphlet than a book. Perhaps the site showed how small this publication is, but apparently I did not look more carefully in my hurry to add it to an order.

My fault because i did not pay enough attention to number of pages before i bought it, but still- only 61 pages. And besides i found it unclear. Her examples were out of context,comparison sentences contained new information, were just not good. I did not like this at all, learned nothing, except to be more careful when ordering!

I know many reviewers, including me, might too often say this is another one you cannot miss. Yeah, we read that all the time. But this work really is! Read this and it WILL make your writing much better. It is so essential that I decided to join the crowd and also write a 5 star review, if not just to support this book.

This book is on deep POV, so it is a specialized book and therefore you get all the in depth info on this subject there is.
Lots has been written about POV, mostly quite difficult to read. This book is very clear with good examples, that are covered in many good reviews already submitted, so I won't add more.
In short, deep POV will help you to weed out passive writing style that always creeps in, to write a much more intimate, immediate, and exciting story. When I started the book, this subject matter seemed very subtle but after a while you get the aha-feeling on how to overcome that easily overlooked stuff that will turn your writing around. And believe me, it is stuff that is not intuitive, or to put it otherwise; I would not have applied these tips myself without the book, no matter how much I have read or written. Which proves once more it is good to read on the craft!

Now you can lift your writing out of the mediocre, buy this!

Before you buy this book, take a look at the contents. She covers only point of view, but it is pretty light approach which you may prefer. I, on the other hand, have purchased dozens and dozens of writing books, and they cover POV very well. So before spending the money, take a look for yourself.