Louise Harnby: Are you layering your story too deeply?

When your story is told through third-person limited point-of-view, consider looking at how many layers the reader must dive through.

In other words, are you telling the reader what the lead character is perceiving — or are you cutting to the chase and showing it?

Louise Harnby shares a gridding exercise that will help illustrate whether you’re layering too deeply (assuming, of course, that you want the reader to feel immersed versus distant) in a recent blog post.