third person – J. Scott Coatsworth

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POINT OF VIEW: Choosing Person and Tense – Third Person

July 5, 2021 by scott

Last week we talked about writing in first person. This week I thought I’d tackle the more common third person usage. Third person means using he/she/they etc pronouns – stories that describe the action from outside of the characters. It comes in three basic flavors: Third Person Omniscient: The most common of the three. Omniscient … Read more

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POINT OF VIEW: Choosing Person and tense – First Person

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 by scott

When crafting a story, every writer has to make some key choices: What’s the genre? What’s the tone? How about the setting? Who are the characters, and what’s going to happen to them? How will they react? And will it all end? But there’s another choice we all make, consciously or unconsciously, that can have … Read more