Looking for a different angle on your fiction or nonfiction? Consider the concepts of insight, oversight, foresight, and hindsight for your fictional character’s point of view or as the angle for your nonfiction topic. They may turn out to be the unique twist you’ve been looking for.

Vision

Insight is defined as the power to see into a situation (penetration), to see cause and effect within a specific context, or the act of understanding the inner nature of things (intuition). Some other synonyms for insight, besides penetration and intuition, include instinct, sixth sense, depth, sagacity, wisdomdiscernment, deduction and wisdom.

Perception can reveal itself abruptly and unexpectedly. For example, when faced with a difficult problem or dilemma, you suddenly know exactly what the solution is. Do you have an epiphany or a “Ha hamoment. In fiction, your character might have them on a regular basis, giving him a reputation of being a psychic or something. Or the perception can be part of the plot, where everything becomes clear to the reader, although not openly, of course. For non-fiction, the writer can use his personal insight on a topic or field of study to explain things to his readers, or he can show readers how to develop their own insight and use it in their personal, work, and personal lives. . social lives.

Surveillance

Vigilance is defined as attentive and conscientious care; strict supervision or management; or an unintentional omission or error. Oversight synonyms include: contempt, neglect, contempt, boss, overlook, supervise, oversee, or watch over.

In fiction, your character may be a slave-handling supervisor in the countryside, a strict workplace clerk, or a high-ranking government employee responsible for keeping the masses at bay. For nonfiction, you may be writing articles or books about government oversight committees, asking who is overseeing the government, discussing government regulations, or clinical oversight. Nonfiction writers could also create a monitoring system that they teach their readers, or even show readers how to set their own monitoring protocols for their workplace or charities.

Forecast

Forecasting is the act of foreseeing or seeing a development in advance; caution; or the act of looking ahead. Synonyms include: caution, care, good sense, care, foresight, discretion, unusual perception, creative insight, foresight, vision, good judgment, common sense, circumspection, being far-sighted, or being a visionary.

In fiction, your character can be a futurist (someone who looks at all current and past facts and trends to predict future events) or a religious or spiritual person who has a gift for keen foresight. For nonfiction, writers can interview futurists about their economic and political foresight, they can offer their own foresight in any field based on their expertise, or they can teach their readers how to develop their own foresight based on the facts and current and past trends. events.

retrospective understanding

Hindsight can be defined as hindsight, the awareness or discernment of the nature, composition, or disposition of any event that has already occurred, or the tendency to view past events as more predictable than they actually were at the time. Synonyms may include: 20/20 vision, 20/20 hindsight, Monday morning quarterback, experience, realization, knowledge, learning, looking back, remembering, the know-it-all effect, memory distortion, or determinism progressive.

In fiction, your character may not have been able to see the signs or clues of their situation, but in hindsight they now see the error of their ways, or the character may be using hindsight as a means of reflection to reexamine their life . Nonfiction writers can use hindsight to discuss how our memories may be flawed or how they may have been affected by our belief systems and personal histories and biases. Writers could also teach their readers how to use hindsight to re-examine their belief systems or to reflect and re-examine their lives. Both fiction and non-fiction writers can make use of the Monday morning quarterback and know-it-all mentality. Better yet, consider how hindsight can be used to inform foresight, whether in your fiction or nonfiction.