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  • Pulp Rag: Weighing point-of-view techniques

    So let’s talk some more about Point-Of-View. Because this is quite a sticky widget.

    The simplest, commonest, most straight-forward POV is third-person limited. And there’s a really good reason for this.

    Because it WORKS.

    Once upon a time it was first-person limited.

    However, first-person got kind of beat to death over the millenia, so now we use third-person for everything but the most specific situations. True, it’s not as immediate and intimate as first-person, but it does have the benefit of allowing the reader to feel they’re in the room with the protagonist themself, going through the protagonist’s experiences alongside them, rather than having to do it all from inside the protagonist’s own head.

    Fortunately, keeping the aspect limited rather than omniscient also optimizes immediacy and intimacy. . .

    Read the full essay on Pulp Rag.

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Short story author Scott Warrender is a Mentoring Program client. I have done full Copy, Line, & Developmental Editing on a number of short stories for him, the first of which was his poignant fictional memoir of Africa, ''The Boy With the Newsprint Kite,'' now published in the Foundling Review.

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