Thinking of POV as a camera with settings that can be adjusted gives an idea of the complexity of this vital tool in the writer’s tool-box.

Research can be a means to gain new insight or perspective, create subtext and develop themes, and even provide structure.

In his article “What Makes Fiction Literary: Scenes vs. Postcards.” Donald Maass posits that while scenes consist of action and move the plot forward, postcards are moments when the author pauses to take a deep dive.