Writing Without Rules: From the Notebook

Writing Without Rules: From the Notebook

The Steady Hand

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Jeff Somers
May 19, 2024
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Written in 2014, I initially wasn’t sure if this story should be a first-person POV or a third-person POV. On the one hand, I liked getting inside the MC’s head for the “steady hand” business, but everything else worked better at a distance. The original flips back and forth between first and third as I attempted to combine both, to disastrous results. …

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