"Show, Don't Tell" Shown: How Not to Report Your Story

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Point of view, which to use? It’s one of the first questions authors answer (or have answered by their WiP) when they start a new project. The choices are simple enough: first-person (I/me), second-person (you), third-person limited (he/she/xe only), third-person omniscient (he/she/xe everyone). There are some other, less common choices, but these are the big players, as it were. I won’t get into the nuts and bolts of each. That isn’t what this post is about. If ...