Tag: narrative

• 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…

  joegergen

  March 4, 2023

  art, writing

  book, chaos, fiction, first person, narration, narrative, novel, structure, 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

  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