The Four POVs in Writing

Everything You Need to Know: Pros, Cons, Tips, and Examples

The angle you tell your story from will greatly influence its tone and the overall reading experience. For this reason, it’s important to choose the most suitable point of view for your narrative. The following guide — including pros, cons, tips, and examples — will help you determine which one to use.

You’re probably going to focus more on your main protagonist’s perspective no matter which of the four POVs you choose to tell your story from. Still, there is more than one way to do this:

In first person point of view, the story is told to the reader by a character — or multiple characters — who relays not only the events, but also their thoughts and emotions, each step of the way.

Using this point of view, it is important for your storytelling character to have their own voice, perspectives, and opinions; they are not a blank-slate narrator, but an individual with a personality.

In other words, the story is told subjectively; through the POV character’s lenses.

The degree to which this occurs is up to you, the writer: do you want your narrator to be reliable, moderately reliable, or unreliable?

There are several types of unreliable narrators, such as:

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