: Re: How can I make my writing more interesting? For some reason my writing is really boring. I think its because I write in the character's point of view and I suck at that. How can I fix this?

I assume you're writing in the first person. (Writing from a single character's point of view can be done in third person too.)

A trusted instructor told me that writing in first person should only be done when (a) the character has a unique voice or (b) the narrator is not the main character, but is telling someone else's story.

I haven't always followed his advice, but I present it to you as something to try. If you want to continue in first person, then either give your narrator a unique voice (Read "The Prophet from Jupiter," one of my fave stories) or make a secondary character your narrator (The Great Gatsby might be the most famous example).

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