“The Voice that arises from the third-person narrative is that much more complex. Instead of one dominant POV, your novel could have many. Not one of these has the sustained POV of a first person. Third person is just that—a story told by someone outside the center of the tale as it unfolds. Because this narrator is not directly vulnerable to the events as they transpire, it cannot have as deep a connection. As a matter of fact, I have read and been told that the third-person narrator is an objective voice. I can understand the desire for this restriction. Once you allow the third-person narrator to have an opinion the exhibition of emotion makes that voice, to one degree or another, unreliable.” (Walter Mosley, Elements of Fiction)
Leave a comment