Rookie Mistakes (Mary Strand)
This month at YA Outside the Lines, our topic is point of view. It's funny: point of view, or POV, is always a hot topic among writers. But I don't think I've ever heard a single reader mention it. It's the concept of showing whose head we're in during a story. As in, what they're thinking. Typically, you stay in one character's POV for an entire scene or chapter. And sometimes, like in most of my young adult (YA) books, for the entire book. While in that person's POV, you don't technically know what any other characters are thinking, but you can often guess (correctly or not) through their words and actions. My favorite POV story is that when I started writing my very first novel, I hadn't attended a single writers' workshop or read any books about how to write a novel. I'd read a lot of novels, of course, and my years of English and other languages, as well as law school, had taught me a lot. But when I started writing that first
