Writing Great Fiction. Episode 17, He, She, It - Third-Person Point of View.
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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James Hynes
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2014.
While first-person narration is an effective way to tell a story, third-person narration offers a wonderful range and flexibility, and allows you to dive just as deeply into your characters' heads - if not more deeply - than the first-person perspective. Survey the spectrum of third-person voices, from the objective and external to the interior stream of consciousness.