It is risky to choose (1) a pet’s point of view, (2) the point of view of a piece of furniture or a fly on the wall, (3) the point of view of one of your character’s alternative personalities. These and other tricks have been tried before and have, invariably, failed. Your goal is to enrich your portrait of both the old point-of-view character and the new one. You have a certain amount of leeway in changing the plot of your story, but it should be recognizably the same story. Oct. 25, 1989Monahan, FW 325 “The Boy,” version #3 a story by Gary Olson Although he kept quiet about them, and he was only eight, Larry had some extra powers that he didn’t really understand. For example, he could see around corners, and he could remember his whole life, all the way back to being born. He didn’t let himself remember the early part of his life very often, though, because it made him too sad. That was when his mother, Lydia, had been younger and prettier and thinner and happier. That was when his father had come home every night right after work to have dinner with her and play with him, Larry.
