I love the way the capitalized on in this sentence. Because we are so used to writing in past tense, it is a little easier to type. The fact is that I am an avid reader. I read books whenever I feel like I am stuck, and I have been known to read a whole series in a day. There’s also the fact that I am a big fan of books.
We like to think of ourselves as being able to read or listen to books in a completely different way. I mean, sure, we can read a book, but most people can’t read a book in the same way as we can, since we are so used to reading from our own point of view. Well, not really. You see, our brains are wired to read from both a subjective and objective point of view.
This might sound strange, but we usually read a book from the point of view of the people who wrote the book. You see, a book written by a person who is completely different from you is going to tell you a completely different story from the one you would have gotten if you had read the book from the original author point of view. We can read a book, but it doesn’t make sense to read it from a different point of view than the one we are used to reading.
This is where the subjective and objective points of view come in. Because a book written by a person with a completely different point of view than you might tell you a totally different story. Maybe his point of view is more of a “hacker” than a “humanist.” We can also tell ourselves that a book written by a person who is a different class of person than we are might tell us something different. A person of color might have a different point of view than a white person.
Yes, this is subjective. Because a book written by a person whose point of view is entirely different than your own might have different points of view than you do.
This point of view thing is a big one and I’ll explain it a little bit. The whole point of the book is to have a story. So we know a book is supposed to have a beginning, middle, and an end. And that the book is being told to you by the author, so that you can take in the story and understand what the author is trying to tell you. So I’m assuming that this is the author’s point of view.
The point of view is just a shorthand way of saying, the way you’ll end up understanding the story if you pay attention to it. The person you are reading this from may not be the author, and it may be written from the perspective of a character you don’t know anything about. And the way you may feel about the characters you know and love is completely different than the feelings your parents or your friends have when they read this book.
This is often a problem with horror fiction. The characters are often based on people you know. And the feelings you have about these characters are often based on things you know. It tends to be a recipe for confusion.
Yes, it can be. It’s something that every writer out there has experienced at some point or another. You may know the characters in question and not like them, or you may not know them and feel they’ve gone off the deep end. Either way, you can never really get over it. I think it’s important to remember this when writing, especially if you’re creating a new horror or thriller or whatever.
Its true that the character names are all based on things you know, and that they all have their own unique characteristics. The protagonist of my new horror story is one of these characters. I know all these characters, and they are all based on things I know. What I don’t know, what I do know is that I can’t get over the fact that my protagonist has no memory of how he got here. He was on a boat on a beach with no memory of his past.