WRITING WORKSHOP — HOW TO BE LESS AFRAID OF OMNISCIENT POV
Lighthouse Writers Workshop

An omniscient narrator—that godlike knowing, the bird’s eye view—holds the potential to zoom deeply into characters’ minds while also panning out to take in the wider sweep of place, time, and history. For an author, that’s a lot to juggle! In practice, omniscient narration exists in degrees, and it’s up to us to decide how all-seeing our narrators are, a task that demands not only a slew of narrative choices, but also a certain finesse to pull off. In this seminar, we’ll tackle the scope of omniscience by learning to shape it to the specific needs of our fiction. Through a mixture of lecture, discussion, and writing exercises, you’ll leave with greater confidence in wielding this challenging (and beautifully capacious) point of view.