Dominik shared a PowerPoint presentation with lots of info about point of view. Take a look and then try these exercises:
1) Write down a scene involving two people. It can be set anywhere and the people can be doing anything. Don’t think about it too much. Just start writing a scene with two people.
2) Write a new story from a point of view that’s different from the one you used at the beginning of the workshop OR rewrite your earlier story.
If rewriting, you can:
• Use another 1st person POV.
• If you wrote from the perspective of one character, you could now write it from the POV of the other character.
• You could introduce another character entirely. Is this character watching those two people? Are they involved in the conversation? What does this person think of what’s happening?
• When changing 1st person POV, remember: the new POV doesn’t know what the other is thinking, so their reactions (and especially their thoughts) will be different.
If rewriting or writing a new story:
• You could change the POV. If you wrote in 1st person earlier, try 2nd person or 3rd person this time.