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  • – 8 – - Narrative viewpoint and narrative voice

  • Sarah Burton, Jem Poster
  • Book:
    The Book You Need to Read to Write the Book You Want to Write
    Published online:
    17 February 2022
    Print publication:
    17 March 2022, pp 119-160

  • Summary

    Who is telling the story and how are they telling it? The difference between the author and the narrator. Respective advantages and disadvantages of first- and third-person narrative voices. Varieties of first-person narrative. Unreliable narrators. Varieties of third-person narrative. Multiple narrative viewpoints. Direct address to the reader. ‘Other world’ narrative voices.

    ‘Most stories pivot on the question of which character knows what and – crucially – what your reader knows and when you let them know it. The choice of narrative voice and point of view defines how much the reader can know.’