One of the best ways to develop a story is to use the first person, to climb inside the story and tell it from the perspective of one of the characters. Using a first-person point of view changes the angle and provides freshness and insight into what at first might seem pretty familiar stuff. Suppose you got inside the account of the temptation of Eve and Adam and changed the angle. How would Eve have explained what happened that afternoon? Or look at the incident from the tempter’s angle; how would
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