Viewpoint

[rolanni]

"First person" narratives are sometimes called "I stories." This is because the story is told solely from the point of view of a single character, who refers to herhisoritself as "I."

A story told in "rotating first person" means that there are several characters involved in a work, each pursuing hisherorits own story, and each referring to themselves as "I."

"Third person" narratives are sometimes called "omniscient." This is because the narrator is someone other than the characters, who is nonetheless completely informed about the characters' world(s), past lives, current actions and present thoughts. Some people make the mistake of thinking that the omniscient narrative voice is the "actual" voice of the author of the book.

A subset of the third person viewpoint is "tight third" in which the all-knowing narrator chooses to stick with the perceptions/history/actions/thoughts of one character. It is easily distinguishable from a "first person" narrative in that the focal character is referred to by herhisorits name, rather than "I."

That is all.

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

We can't do anything but grit and go on.

...and offer bad-tempered tutorials in our Live Journals *g*

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Well, **I** thought it was informative. *g*

Although you used slightly different names for one/some? of the forms, I understood your point and the voice.