Tag: narration
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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…
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Adventures in the 3rd Person — Jerry Springer Method
For my 3rd person project I’ve decided to do some outlining. Obviously not a practice confined to the 3rd person but something I’ve never really done before except maybe at a super high level, or maybe after the third draft when shit isn’t making any sense. But it’s new to me, so we’ll bundle it…
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Adventures in the 3rd Person – Structure or Chaos
I suppose a story about memory will by its nature want to jump around in time. Even in the 1st person you can flashback to times the protagonist can remember. So I suppose in the 3rd person it just becomes more complicated. Multiple characters can go back into memory, and the narrator can go wherever…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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,…
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