FAW General Meeting featuring Lyndsey Ellis on Multiple Points of View

Mastering Multiple Points of View in Fiction with Lyndsey Ellis gives instruction on writing from the viewpoints of several characters without diffusing a story’s plot or confusing readers. The talk offers a close look at classic texts in fiction that involve multiple perspectives, along with a brief, targeted writing exercise, and Q&As to follow. Using different perspectives to build characters in your stories can stretch creative muscles, but the result is worthwhile. This foundational technique requires settling into several outlooks authentically by imagining, listening and inventing outside of one’s own lived experience or belief system.

Lyndsey Ellis is an award-winning writer, editor and teaching artist who crafts speculative fiction and longform essays that explore regional history, as well as intergenerational dynamics, in the Midwest. Author of Bone Broth, her work also appears in The New York Times, Kweli Journal, Shondaland, Narratively, Catapult, The Rumpus, Literary Hub, Electric Literature, and several anthologies. For more about Lyndsey Ellis, explore her website: www.lyndseyellis.com.
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