How to Find the Right Point of View Character for Your Story
An exercise for figuring out which lens through which to look at the framework of your story.
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I’ve been watching Netflix’s show AJ and the Queen today.
In the very few opening moments there’s a kid, maybe nine years old, wearing jeans and a beanie. The kid is AJ. The visual shifts to a drag queen in a huge red wig. Anyone who’s got any cultural knowledge recognizes RuPaul, but it doesn’t really matter. She’s gorgeous. The drag queen is Ruby Red.
AJ talks about Ruby Red for a minute.
And then the kid says something like this:
Ruby Red thinks this story is about her. But she’s wrong. Really, this is my story.