Third person near is the closest-to-standard perspective there is. Among the big three- first person, third person omniscient, and third person near- it’s a slightly-more-removed version of the first, the common default of the second (I’ll explain this in a
I’ve read some books; you’ve read some books. You, like me, have noticed that some books use ‘he’ for the protagonist and some use ‘I’. If you’re truly adventurous, you may even have encountered the dread ‘you’ protagonist. Thus far,
Notes from Interview, 11/19/2*** “I blew his brains out.” Those were the first words the prisoner said to me when I sat down across from him. He’s a tall man, thin, with strong, ink-stained fingers and stubble- rough, not sloppy-
Some parts of life require more care than others to depict. Last week I covered the depiction of sins, particularly the lurid sins that make us wince: rape, adultery, murder, jaywalking. These sins, we concluded, are not wrong to write
Are there parts of life it is wrong to imitate in art? The question may rise in your mind when you’re writing a story and come to the part with the triple murder-suicide that ends in a catastrophic genocidal explosion,