Reading Response Week 11

Chapter 7: Point of View and Voice


I find perspectives difficult. I tend to write about my own experiences or stories I've heard or read before. It's hard to write from a perspective of a different culture or even gender. As an American woman I do not know the difficulties women in other cultures face and I have no idea what guys think(I think that's a mystery to all women.) I wouldn't want to offend someone by making presumptions about their culture in a story. I prefer to write in omniscient because you can provide the most detail. First person and third are very limited in what you can say in the story. I find them very difficult to write in.