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when I'd use 1st person : Editor's Notes #129 August 31, 2012 |
Hello, is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. --Ann Rice In this issue: 1. First person POV 2. Tickled my funnybone 3. Interesting Web site ========== 1. First person POV Today we start our closer look at each of the three main narrative modes or points of view (POV) with first person. In first person narration, the story is told using the pronouns I, me, my, we, us, and our. The narrator is a character in the story. The story is often told as a stream of consciousness and shows the narrator's thought process. First person is used a great deal in young adult (YA) fiction as well as in memoir, autobiography, and travelog, and when the writer wants to focus on the internal life of the narrator. Some writers capitalize on the fact that the narrator knows things that no one else in the story knows. Strengths of first person POV
Weaknesses of first person POV
Examples of first person POV
Many thanks to Pam Harris who sent in the results she got when she took the challenge of switching POVs from first to third person in a section of a Stephen King novel. She says, "My feeling on this particular book [is that] the ability to feel the main character would be lessened by writing in third person POV." The POV challenge continues throughout this series. Let me know what you learn from making the switch. See https://www.writershelper.com/Editors_Notes-128.html =========== 2.Tickled my funnybone Osteopornosis : A degenerate disease. =========== 3. Interesting Web site This one is for the Canadian writers among us. http://www.canadacouncil.ca/home-e.htm =========== Join Writer's Helper Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WritersHelperEditor Follow me on Twitter@AudreytheEditor =========== If you know a writer who would appreciate receiving Editor's Notes, forward this issue. If someone has passed this on to you, you can get your own free subscription by signing up at https://www.writershelper.com/newsletter.html |
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