Find the right narrator or point of view for a story before you write it
The same events read completely differently depending on who's telling them.
- Use it for
- Anyone about to write a story, case study, or personal narrative.
Point of view gets picked by default — usually first-person if you were there, third-person if you weren't — without considering that it's actually a choice that changes what the story can do. The same events narrated by the person they happened to, by an observer, or from a wider vantage point create different intimacy, different reliability, and different information the reader has access to. Picking by default means never considering whether a different vantage point would serve the story better.
This prompt runs through the real options before defaulting to the obvious one.
When not to use this
For something short and functional where point of view genuinely doesn't matter (a quick update, a factual report), this consideration is overkill. This is for a story where how it's told is part of what makes it work.
Did this work?
You can articulate specifically why the chosen point of view serves this story better than the alternatives — not just default to first-person because that's the obvious choice.
Tested on claude-opus-5. Evidence status is draft; it moves to battle-tested only on recorded runs, never by hand.