Showing posts with label Learn the Craft of Writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learn the Craft of Writing. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Learn the Craft of Writing: The Three Lives of Third Person POV


by PeggySue Wells @PeggySueWells

Third Person POV is characterized by pronouns He and She, They, and It.

In the Third Person point of view, the author tells the story of different characters. The story unfolds through the POV of one character at a time. 

When using more than one character to tell the story, the author does not need to vary the chapters equally, or always bounce from the hero to the antagonist and back again every other chapter. Instead, the author is free to tell the story in the most compelling fashion. The reader is not counting which character has the most chapters in their POV.