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<blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 5859391" data-attributes="member: 5868">Thanks for the constructive criticism.&nbsp; I'm really a non-fiction writer; I haven't tried my hand at &quot;creative writing&quot; since high school (and didn't really enjoy it, then).I have a story I want to tell, but am (obviously) struggling with presentation.&nbsp; Figure the two main characters are a man and a dog, and it would be easiest to tell the story from the third person, or the first person (human) point of view.But I think it would be more interesting to tell the story from the dog's point of view, and have been struggling with how:- Yeah, third person.&nbsp; But that seems less fun to imagine.- First person, and the dog is smarter than the human, or at least is a human intelligence in a doggie body.&nbsp; This departs into fantasy, and I really don't want to write a story about an anthropomorphic dog (though I suspect that's a bit of what I end up with regardless).&nbsp; I want the dog to feel like a dog, not like a short human without opposable thumbs.- First person, but the dog is a regular dog.&nbsp; This strikes me as fun to imagine and it's where I started, but am clearly struggling with how to adequately project myself into an alien mind.&nbsp; How do you adequately convey the point of view of a being whose primary sense is scent, with hearing and sight secondary (and both much different than ours)?&nbsp; Add to that limited attention span, different priorities ... I have three mutts at home, so I know how they &quot;think,&quot; or at least react.&nbsp; But conveying a human perception of how a dog perceives the world back to a human ... well, I may have bit off a lot more than I can chew. Anyway, haven't come back to this yet -- too busy with work, blog posting, and some other stuff that is &quot;near fiction&quot; right now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olgar Shiverstone, post: 5859391, member: 5868"] Thanks for the constructive criticism. I'm really a non-fiction writer; I haven't tried my hand at "creative writing" since high school (and didn't really enjoy it, then). I have a story I want to tell, but am (obviously) struggling with presentation. Figure the two main characters are a man and a dog, and it would be easiest to tell the story from the third person, or the first person (human) point of view. But I think it would be more interesting to tell the story from the dog's point of view, and have been struggling with how: - Yeah, third person. But that seems less fun to imagine. - First person, and the dog is smarter than the human, or at least is a human intelligence in a doggie body. This departs into fantasy, and I really don't want to write a story about an anthropomorphic dog (though I suspect that's a bit of what I end up with regardless). I want the dog to feel like a dog, not like a short human without opposable thumbs. - First person, but the dog is a regular dog. This strikes me as fun to imagine and it's where I started, but am clearly struggling with how to adequately project myself into an alien mind. How do you adequately convey the point of view of a being whose primary sense is scent, with hearing and sight secondary (and both much different than ours)? Add to that limited attention span, different priorities ... I have three mutts at home, so I know how they "think," or at least react. But conveying a human perception of how a dog perceives the world back to a human ... well, I may have bit off a lot more than I can chew. Anyway, haven't come back to this yet -- too busy with work, blog posting, and some other stuff that is "near fiction" right now. [/QUOTE]

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