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Added 2022-10-28 10:05:23 +0000 UTCIt's taken some long nights, but I've gotten all 5100 words of this month's last commission done. There's some egregious POV-hopping, but then, when did the omniscient third-person viewpoint fall out of favor, anyway? Was it when 'omniscient' became so hard to spell? I only charge so much, you know. You can't expect limited third-person on a budget!
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I think people kind of fell away from it once we started reading stuff like Harry Potter, where the 3rd person perspective was very much over-the-shoulder. Between that and ASOIAF, et al, people expect to have a specific character's POV. I think the trick to making an omniscient narrator nowadays is to give him a little personality. Not enough that it can irritate or distract, but enough so that the narration doesn't feel cold. Something like the narrator in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, maybe
RHar
2022-10-29 05:18:25 +0000 UTC
