The Point of View Workshop

?The whole intricate question of method in the craft of fiction,? says Percy Lubbock, ?I take to be governed by the question of the point of view?the question of the relation in which the narrator stands to the story.? One hundred years on, pinning down a story?s point of view remains one of the core challenges for a fiction writer. In this six-week series, we will adopt the classic perspectives, including first person, third person close and distant, and omniscient, as well as the less often tapped second-person, choral and epistolary points of view.