By: K.M. Weiland
Chances are good you’re using a third-person POV
(or Point of View) in your story right now. If not, then you likely used it in
the past or will give it a try in the future. It’s a nearly universal writing
technique and the most popular of all the POV choices. But are you using it
correctly?
Not everything in writing comes easily. I often
talk about how most of storytelling—particularly structure—is surprisingly instinctive for most writers. We understand it
on a subconscious level, to the point we’re often on the right track with our
books long before our conscious brains catch up.
But not everything’s like that. For most writers,
POV isn’t like that. The gist of one of the questions I most frequently receive
is: POV?
I’ve written primer posts about omniscient POV and first-person POV, but I realized I still needed to do one
on the most prevalent of all POVs—the third-person POV.
This is the POV of choice in more books than
not—everything from Emma toEnder’s Game. It’s
arguably the least complicated of the POVs, so it’s a good choice for beginning
writers. But it’s also arguably the most flexible of the POVs, which means it’s
also a good choice for the most advanced and complicated of stories.
In short, third-person POV is pretty awesome—but
only if you understand what you’re doing with it and how to properly put its
mighty powers to work. Let’s kick that panicked emoji to the curb and start
answering your most burning and fundamental questions about the third-person
POV.
What Is
Third-Person POV?
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