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Folks give the various kinds of POV different names.
As long as everybody agrees on what's being discussed, I don't think the terminology is all that important. One set of terminology isn't any more or less correct than any other.
>>>"Tom walks out to his car. It's cold and he feels the chill deep in his bones. 'Moring Tom,' the neighbor calls. Tom waves back not really paying attention. He gets in the car and drives to the store; he never comes back. Jane cries for a week."<<<
What I first notice about this is that it's in present tense.
I'd call the POV Third Person, and add that it has an Omniscient Narrator.
When you call it Third Omni, I understand what you mean, so that's cool too.
The visual and sensory details of the scene mean the reader experiences this passage from a distance of twenty or thirty feet, so I'd say -- 'the focus is distant'.
The reader does not really experience what's happening to Tom, only 'hears' about it. So I'd call this a very 'shallow POV'.
>>>"I walked out to the car. It was cold and I felt the chill deep in my bones. 'Moringin Tom,' the neighbor called. I waved back not really paying attention. I got in the car and drove to the store; I never returned. Jane told me she cried for a week." <<<<
First person. Past tense.
>>"He walked out to the car, 'Morning Tom,' the neighbor called. He waved back, got in and drove to the store; he never came back."<<<<
Simple Third Person, past tense. The most common POV of fiction.
The focus seems fairly distant, but the passage is too short to be sure.
No way to tell how deep the POV will turn out to be from this passage.
I haven't run across the term 'observational POV' myself, but if somebody explained what it meant and wanted to used this terminology I'd get used to it.
>>>"You walk out to the car. It is very cold and you feel the chill deep in your bones. 'Morning Tom,' the neighbor calls. You wave back not really paying attention. You get in and drive to the store; you never return. Jane cries for a week."
I always think of Second Person as experimental stuff. Not of much interest to me since I'm not going to write in it and it's rare. More for literary analysis, I think.
"Gravity's Rainbow" uses 'you' in all of the various ways you can use 'you', including as a POV. Margaret Atwood used second person in "Rape Fantasies". And, of course, there's James Joyce. I think a lot of serious writers have played around with it.
Folks give the various kinds of POV different names.
As long as everybody agrees on what's being discussed, I don't think the terminology is all that important. One set of terminology isn't any more or less correct than any other.
>>>"Tom walks out to his car. It's cold and he feels the chill deep in his bones. 'Moring Tom,' the neighbor calls. Tom waves back not really paying attention. He gets in the car and drives to the store; he never comes back. Jane cries for a week."<<<
What I first notice about this is that it's in present tense.
I'd call the POV Third Person, and add that it has an Omniscient Narrator.
When you call it Third Omni, I understand what you mean, so that's cool too.
The visual and sensory details of the scene mean the reader experiences this passage from a distance of twenty or thirty feet, so I'd say -- 'the focus is distant'.
The reader does not really experience what's happening to Tom, only 'hears' about it. So I'd call this a very 'shallow POV'.
>>>"I walked out to the car. It was cold and I felt the chill deep in my bones. 'Moringin Tom,' the neighbor called. I waved back not really paying attention. I got in the car and drove to the store; I never returned. Jane told me she cried for a week." <<<<
First person. Past tense.
>>"He walked out to the car, 'Morning Tom,' the neighbor called. He waved back, got in and drove to the store; he never came back."<<<<
Simple Third Person, past tense. The most common POV of fiction.
The focus seems fairly distant, but the passage is too short to be sure.
No way to tell how deep the POV will turn out to be from this passage.
I haven't run across the term 'observational POV' myself, but if somebody explained what it meant and wanted to used this terminology I'd get used to it.
>>>"You walk out to the car. It is very cold and you feel the chill deep in your bones. 'Morning Tom,' the neighbor calls. You wave back not really paying attention. You get in and drive to the store; you never return. Jane cries for a week."
I always think of Second Person as experimental stuff. Not of much interest to me since I'm not going to write in it and it's rare. More for literary analysis, I think.
"Gravity's Rainbow" uses 'you' in all of the various ways you can use 'you', including as a POV. Margaret Atwood used second person in "Rape Fantasies". And, of course, there's James Joyce. I think a lot of serious writers have played around with it.
