Kill Your Darlings: The Art of Revision — 4. Narrative Mode

Fourth element in this series: Kill Your Darlings: The Art of Revision
(Please read the Introduction, if you haven’t already.)

NARRATIVE MODE

Narrative Modes: first person, second person, third person.

Most fiction is written in third-person (he, she, they, them), but not all. Narrative nonfiction is generally written in third-person, with the exception of memoir.Memoirs and autobiographies are written in first-person (I, me, we, us).Second-person narrative mode is rarely used (you, your); e...