Point of view exercise

Creative writing invites us to place ourselves in someone else's shoes: The point of view exercise.

Let's take as an example a citizen science project about renewable energy. This is inspired by this project, taking place in Uganda.

Read this case and think of all the people involved, as communities of interest. We can clearly see the female farmers, the male farmers; the engineers that are in charge of the knowledge transfer; the cooperative leaders; the civil servants. But we can also communicate and write a story from a non-human or inanimate character, for example, the wind, that will move the windmills. Or the soil, and all its microorganisms, or the birds, that will have to deal with the windmills, but they will probably get more food from a less treated ground.

Make a list of all possible characters. Lists are great allies when it comes to getting ideas on where to start from. 

                                                                                                Credits: Andrea Troncoso, CC-BY

Once you have chosen the character or characters and it's/their point(s) of view, you will be able to make the best use of the worksheets that will be explained in the next section, where we will learn different techniques to organise your narrative(s) and explore different perspectives.