Month: February 2017

Writing Exercise #11 – Part B

Point-Of-View Exercise – Part B

Introduction ~

In each of the four components of this part of the exercise you will use the same personal characteristics as you used in Part A of this exercise (Here) to introduce yourself. However, this time you will be writing from different Points-Of-View.

Part A was written from the 1st Person Point-Of-View (POV) – from your own perspective (using ‘I’ or ‘we’ – speaking about yourself).

Part B (a) and (b) are to be written from the 2nd Person POV (using ‘You’ – to address you directly).

Part B (c) and (d) are to be written from the 3rd Person POV (using ‘He’ ‘She’ ‘They’ – another person speaking about you).

 

 Instructions ~

Part B (a) – Write from the 2nd Person POV – Using the same characteristics you identified in Part A as describing yourself, write a piece of up to 100 words about you from the perspective of a parent or parent figure.

Part B (b) – Write from the 2nd Person POV – Using the same characteristics you identified in Part A as describing yourself, write a piece of up to 100 words about you from the perspective of your worst enemy. If you don’t know of any enemies, imagine you have one and what they would say about you using your stated characteristics.

Part B (c) – Write from the 3rd Person POV – Using the same characteristics you identified in Part A as describing yourself, write a piece of up to 100 words about you from the perspective of your best friend.

Part B (d) – Write from the 3rd Person POV – Using the same characteristics you identified in Part A as describing yourself, write a piece of up to 100 words about you from the perspective of a biographer one hundred years from now.

Try to get into the spirit of this exercise by imagining you are the person from whose perspective each piece is written. Write from their attitudes, thought processes, and how they would express themselves.

By the end of this exercise you will have experienced the same information [your own characteristics from Part A of this exercise (Here)] from three different Points-Of-View. Notice how the same information can bring different results from different characters and different Points-Of-View. For example, it’s not unusual for ‘shy’ to be interpreted as ‘aloof’ ‘stuck up’ or ‘judgemental’, depending on who is making the observation and what frame of mind they are in.