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Deep POV Masterclass: Learn Deep Point Of View Using Emotional Layers
REGISTRATION IS OPEN!
Class begins January 12th, 2025
THE PROBLEM...
Want to add emotional depth to your stories? Want readers to connect with and care about your characters? Want to create fiction where the reader feels like they’re in the story in real time? Create something immersive they’ll tell all their friends about?
Learn Deep Point Of View!
If you’re hearing things like:
- I just can’t get into the story….
- I just can’t connect with this character…
- I don’t understand why the character did... or feels...
You need to Go DEEPER with your fiction.
What Is Deep Point Of View?
Deep Point of View is a writing style that's dynamic, visceral, and immediate. The goal of this writing technique is to remove the psychic distance between the reader and the point of view character so the reader feels immersed in the story. They’re not being TOLD a story, they’re living one. What makes deep point of view so powerful is the focus on the emotional journey of the characters (and the reader). You're creating an emotional experience that readers won’t be able to put down.
At the heart of Deep Point of View is an immersive experience for the reader through an emotional connection to the character.
Why Is Deep POV So Hard To Learn?
Deep POV is a collection of techniques that blend together to create specific effects. If you only learn the techniques and not the strategy, deep POV will not work for you. If you don’t learn ALL the techniques associated with this style of writing, deep POV will not work for you.
Deep POV is not intuitive if you have not spent a lot of time reading this style of writing. The very best way to learn deep POV is to do it and get feedback! To see others working on it and the advice they’re given. This is very hard to learn solely from a book or a blog.
Writing is hard and it’s solitary, but you don’t have to learn alone. You’ll be joining the Deep Dive Author Club community.
What Will You Learn?
- Eliminate unnecessary telling
- Create empathy in readers for your characters
- Create immediacy
- Effectively use internal dialogue
- Understand and use subtext
- Write tight (make every word count)
- Create unique character voice
- Tap into your emotive memory (just like actors do)
- Learn to write emotions with visceral authenticity
- Learn layering and blending techniques for writing emotions
- Identify and eliminate author intrusion
- Learn effective pacing strategies to intensify emotional impact
- Recognize POV breaks
- Know when not to use Deep Point Of View
- Recognize areas where you're not going deep enough
- Learn what an emotional story arc is and how to employ it
- Using deep point of view within a limited third person story
- *NEW* A whole unit on writing trauma in deep pov
The Course
Over 4 weeks, you'll not only learn the tools and techniques mentioned above required to make deep point of view effective, but also the higher-level strategies behind those techniques so you'll know when and how to make them work for you.
What A Typical Week Looks Like
Each lesson includes a downloadable PDF/web page lesson, a video that expands on the lesson, and a 5-20min homework assignment posted on the private Facebook group. The homework is optional and is intended to help you clarify that day's lesson. You may not need to do all the homework. You have the entirety of the four weeks to submit homework on any lesson.
Each week, you'll have the option to submit 10 pages of your own work for critique (submitted privately via email).
This is a masterclass on deep point of view. This course is a deep dive into deep point of view so that you can get back to writing FAST! This is an intermediate level course that assumes you already understand point of view, plot, character arc, tension, and pace. Critiques will be fair and encouraging - but direct. If you're looking for instant praise with every submission, this course might not be a right-fit for you. You won't be critiqued on plot, grammar or spelling, just how effective the deep point of view is in each submitted piece.
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Lifetime Access
When you register for the course, you get lifetime access to the Deep Dive Author Club (a closed Facebook group). Each time the class is run, you'll have access to the updated content and to submit homework.
You'll also receive a PDF copy of Method Acting For Writers: Learn To Write In Deep POV Using Emotional Layers.
The Cost
This Deep POV masterclass provides individual feedback and the opportunity to submit pages for critique each week. There are bonuses to unlock to be able to receive a one-on-one coaching call with Lisa where you can submit an additional 10 pages. You have lessons delivered in video and written formats in bite-sized portions so you're never overwhelmed. You're joining a growing community of like-minded authors, receive an e-copy of Lisa's book on deep point of view, and lifetime access to the course.
Registration is open and class begins January 12th, 2025. The cost is $325 CDN. Because this is a digital product, there are no refunds. If life happens and you aren't able to finish the course, you have year round access to the content, and can join in the next round of the course for feedback and critiques.
6 Units
Using Deep POV In Limited Third Person
Shifting Narrative/Psychic Distance
Back in unit one, I outlined the differences between the different narrative/psychic distance in third person. It’s unrealistic to think you can (or even should) stay entirely in just ONE for the entirety of a work. Even those striving to write entirely in deep pov will need to strategically use narrative distance and telling or else they risk tying an anchor to the pace of their story. Similarly, those choosing to use more psychic distance for their story, without dipping into deep pov (with contemporary readers) risk having readers complain they can’t connect with the characters.
Different pitfalls, but the solution is to be flexible and strategic in how you incorporate or use psychic distance in your work. The next lesson we’ll dive into story, character, and emotional arcs on a chapter level where we’ll look at the specific strategies.
This lesson is going to take a closer look at how writers are shifting between the four levels of psychic distance.
Harry Potter
JK Rowling has written this sprawling epic that spans a great amount of time and includes a vast cast of characters. But, even if you only have one point of view character, seeing how the different psychic distances are used is helpful.
“When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, grey Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country. Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work and Mrs. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming Dudley into his high chair. None of them noticed a large tawny owl flutter past the window.”
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Rowling has used the omniscient narrator to set the scene for the opening pages of the book. This is a very wide angle lens, right. The narrator isn’t limited to the perspective of one character, and earlier in the chapter the narrator isn’t limited in time either by recapping events over a few years.
A couple of paragraphs down, Rowling switches the narrative distance three times. See if you can spot the shift.
“It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar – a cat reading a map. For a second, Mr. Dursley didn’t realise what he had seen – then he jerked his head around to look again. There was a tabby cat standing on the corner of Privet Drive, but there wasn’t a map in sight. What could he have been thinking of? It must have been a trick of the light. Mr. Dursley blinked and stared at the cat. It stared back.”
This is just two paragraphs on one page, each colour showing a shift in narrative distance. Rowling has used all four narrative distances to focus the reader’s attention on a single page. Do you see how the camera angle narrows to a laser point on what the reader needs to pay attention to? So, for the remainder of the chapter, Rowling uses a combination of the objective third person, limited third person and deep pov. When the scene changes again, the reader is pulled back from the characters into an omniscient psychic distance which narrows down the funnel to a point.
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