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Challenge #329
Mar. 22nd, 2024 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shivverPoint of view practice! Take an existing scene - from a show or book, your own posted work (not a WIP), or someone else's work, whatever - and write it from the point of view of someone else who was there. You can do it either first-person or third-person biased toward that person. Try to choose someone who is not a major character, if such a character exists in the scene.
Remember that the character you chose has a different personality, interests, and knowlege than the usual POV and notice things that the main characters did not or ignore things that they (and you) thought were important. Your chosen character may not even be in the scene the entire time, having entered late or left before it ended.
As an example, if you choose to write the cottage scene in "Family of Blood" from Tim Latimer's point of view, he doesn't enter for a bit, until after Martha says that the Doctor is lonely and John says that that's what she wants him to become. You might have him start with seeing them in the distance as they head toward the cottage. Tim does see Joan pull out and read from the journal but he wouldn't know what it was, and he leaves soon afterwards and doesn't see John and Joan clasp hands over the watch.
Remember that the character you chose has a different personality, interests, and knowlege than the usual POV and notice things that the main characters did not or ignore things that they (and you) thought were important. Your chosen character may not even be in the scene the entire time, having entered late or left before it ended.
As an example, if you choose to write the cottage scene in "Family of Blood" from Tim Latimer's point of view, he doesn't enter for a bit, until after Martha says that the Doctor is lonely and John says that that's what she wants him to become. You might have him start with seeing them in the distance as they head toward the cottage. Tim does see Joan pull out and read from the journal but he wouldn't know what it was, and he leaves soon afterwards and doesn't see John and Joan clasp hands over the watch.