Doris Egan on POV, part one

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Claudia Gray

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Great link. She has great, very sound advice.
 

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Excellent. I'm looking forward to her view of omniscient third.
 

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Her omniscient discussion was good. And was there just a hint that it's coming back into favour. To think that Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell was written in omniscient third. And there's no doubt about it, that's been one of the best books I've read in quite a while.
 

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Sherwood Smith is an all-around terrific writer, and an awfully nice person. I've followed her lj for a long time, too. Thanks for this link, HConn.
 

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Nice essay. I particularly enjoyed her appreciation of the wonderful inherent discipline involved in first person.

I think we would see less wobbly POVs if people learned to write in first person before going on to third.

Not that first person can't be bent to other ends. Although people often insist first person puts constraints on what can be told (what if the teller wasn't present at the event?), Somerset Maugham managed to finesse this problem in a number of his first-person novels, notably The Razor's Edge and Moon and Sixpence, and I don't think they suffered for it.

For that matter, what's Moby Dick? Omniscient first?
 

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Very cool journal with interesting advise on all manner of things (side tracked again) - sigh - another evening reading instead of writing. Now I have to stay up and do some real work!

Thanks for the link

Good stuff

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