ore than once, a switch in point of view has helped me find clarity in my manuscripts. When I started my debut novel, , I had characters but no real plot. The story comprised mainly of a bunch of characters awkwardly hanging out in someone’s basement. I let the draft sit in a drawer for a few years until a friend suggested writing a novel in the form of a text adventure game: an old computer game genre where the game is narrated to you in the second person (e.g., “You are in a cabin. There is a fishing pole.”). One day when I was sick, I started playing with that second-person, text adventure narration
