How a writing instructor chooses her novel's point of view

Over the holiday, we listened to a collection of short stories that included a few tales told in the second-person point of view.

If you’re not the creator of a successful TV show, though, your point-of-view choices for fiction are typically narrowed to just first person or third person.

Still, how do you choose?

Pooja Mittal Biswas, a novelist and writing instructor, shares how she directs her students to decide whether to use first-person or third-person point of view in Writer's Digest.

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