Overview
Narrative voice is the most invisible and most powerful element of fiction. When it works, the reader does not notice it — they simply feel that they are inside a specific consciousness, seeing the world through a specific pair of eyes. When it fails, every sentence sounds like the author, and the reader is always slightly outside the story.
The POV & Narrative Voice Prompt generates a complete voice profile for a specific POV character: what they notice, what they miss, how they think, what their sentences sound like, and what the narrative can and cannot access from inside their consciousness.
What you get: - The character's perceptual filter (what they notice and why) - Their cognitive style (how they process what they see) - Their narrative blind spots (what they cannot see about themselves) - Sentence-level voice characteristics - What the narrative can and cannot know - Sample passages in three emotional registers - Voice consistency rules
Built for: Novelists, short story writers, and any writer who needs the narrative voice to be as specific as the character it belongs to.