Tag: 3rd person

• Adventures in the 3rd Person – Motivation

  Grappling with motivations. Not my own. My characters’. When writing in the 1st person the narrators knows their motivations and their intentions. But the narrator can only observe the behaviors of other characters, can only surmise at their motivations and intentions. And I as the writer have to pretend that I don’t know either, only…

  joegergen

  March 18, 2023

  art, writing

  1st person, 3rd person, art, book, character, first person, intention, motivation, narration, novel, third person, writing

• Adventures in the 3rd Person – Therapy

  Initiating my thoughts today was the question around how much can or should I know about the main characters when writing in the third person. When writing in the 1st person, I can have the main character know a great deal about themselves, however biased and subjective that might be. But their knowledge of the…

  joegergen

  February 25, 2023

  art, writing

  1st person, 3rd person, book, first person, interview, journal, novel, therapy, third person, writing

• Adventures in the 3rd Person – Shifting Perspective

  Oh, the places we will go. That was my big epiphany this morning in pondering the 3rd person narrative style vs. the 1st person narrative style. The ability to go places a first person narrator could not go, or at least could not go without a great deal of machination. I suspect my fascination on…

  joegergen

  February 18, 2023

  art, writing

  1st person, 3rd person, book, epiphany, narrative, novel, perspective, story, writing

• Adventures in the 3rd Person – The Plot Thickens

  The plot thickens or at least expands for the new 3rd person adventure. It even has a working title, if only for the sole purpose of making it easier to reference. “The Shoe Ghost” seems like a good name as any for a story about memory. In fact since I am a terrible typist and…

  joegergen

  February 11, 2023

  art, writing

  1st person, 3rd person, chemistry, narration, novel, story, third person, writing, writing community

• Adventures in the 3rd Person – Watercolors and Oils

  I suppose it seems odd to go on about writing in the 3rd person as some sort of apocalyptic undertaking, but if I didn’t make it so melodramatic it would be ungodly boring, or even more ungodly boring. So I was thinking it was maybe easier to explain in a more concrete art form example.…

  joegergen

  February 4, 2023

  art, writing

  3rd person, art, book, narration, novel, omniscient, third person, writing

• Adventures in the 3rd Person – The Seed and The Way

  In my conversation about wanting to write in the 3rd person I’ve mentioned a plot theme (I’m sure there are more technical terms for this but I have no idea what they are). So to keep on talking about the journey and not sound all vague and elusive about the plot theme, I should at…

  joegergen

  January 28, 2023

  art, life, writing

  3rd person, art, book, journey, narration, novel, third person, writing

• Adventures in the 3rd Person – Beginning

  So, writing in the 3rd person. How hard can this be? I can handle this. I have a plot or at least the seed of a plot. Or maybe it’s just a theme. I’m not sure. But let’s not get too technical. Let’s just call it an idea. So I have an idea. I mean,…

  joegergen

  January 21, 2023

  life, writing

  3rd person, book, narration, theme, third person, writing

• Adventures in the 3rd Person

  Joe decided to write a book in the 3rd person. I think that sentence is the first sentence I have ever publicly written in the 3rd person. I had to think about it quite a bit before I was able to get myself to type it out. Why is this important (if to no one…

  joegergen

  January 16, 2023

  art, life, writing

  1st person, 3rd person, author, book, diary, journey, narrative, novel, third person, writing