Changing point of view is a wonderful way of adding new energy and thoughtfulness to your writing. TASK Write for 10 minutes on any topic you like, but make it in the first person, i.e., from your own point of view. Once you've completed your writing, go through it and change the point of view to third person - i.e., he or she. As an example, if your original first person piece included a sentence that read "I walked to the shops", your revised sentence in third person would read "he (or she, depending on what you feel is more appropriate) walked to the shops". Note what a difference it makes to the feel of the piece, and what freedoms/restrictions it imposes on your work.
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