Perspective Locking for Consistent AI Point of View

Perspective locking is a prompting strategy that anchors an AI writing assistant to a single narrative point of view throughout a scene or chapter, preventing unintended head-hopping or omniscient drift.

AI models naturally pull from diverse training examples and can slip between perspectives without explicit guardrails. By embedding perspective constraints directly into your system prompt or session instructions, you maintain the immersive, consistent viewpoint that literary fiction and commercial storytelling both require.