Editors are very sensitive to POV slips; many consider it the mark of an amateur. So be careful to maintain your point of view; don't head-hop from character to character.

… I have in England for ſome years paſt, kept by me an exact table, or Ephemeris both of the Vernall, and Summer Eteſians; but found the VVinds no leſſe Variable in thoſe Months, then at other Seaſons.

Perhaps the wood had warped too much during the monsoon, I thought, and the lid of the old box-bed did not fit properly.

Oliver Chen, a retail analyst at Cowen, warned of what he called a “CNN effect” of consumers becoming more frugal with holiday purchases, and devoting more attention to news watching.