Five tips for keeping your readers gripped - National Centre for Writing

Viewpoint is your friend

Stories can be told from the point of view of many different characters, each with their own take on the events. Choose who is doing your telling very carefully, work with their voices, character, secrets and lies, reliability or lack thereof, and the spaces between different points of view. You can weave a wonderfully rich pattern this way. This doesn't mean that you have to write in the first person (‘I') - you can get right up close inside a character's head by using third (‘she'). A cool, detached, narrator can be helpful, too, but you have to be clear who and what they are, and why they are there.