Columns: Tag – Point Of View
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Writing Quips and Tips
Is God (as narrator, that is) dead?
I might be shot down in flames for this, but I find the Omniscient point of view a bit old-fashioned.
Of course there are exceptions, and some writers can still handle it with skill and applomb. But I’m talking generally here.
Okay, this is out of context and it is an old-fashioned example. But despite the fact that we probably all read Little Women voraciously as children, I’d like you to consider how you’d respond to this in a modern novel:
As young readers like to know ‘how people look’, we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight, while the December snow fell quietly without, and the fire crackled cheerfully within…
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