[Writing Prompt] Third Person, Omniscient

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Continuing this week’s theme of POV prompts, here is today’s prompt:


Write a story from the Third Person, Omniscient perspective

This is the perspective you know from all the classics (Dickens springs to mind): the author can say anything, pop inside any (or all) character’s heads, travel backwards and forwards in time, insert herself and her own commentary onto the page…


Have some fun with this. Take an episode and tell it from one character’s perspective, then leap into another character’s head and give their read on the situation. Try out your authorial prerogatives and make a comment about what’s going on (think of that moment when a TV character turns to the camera and talks directly to us, the audience).


This can get quite complicated (which is why it works so well for novels) but give it a bash and see what you come up with.


Go!



And when you have written your story, log in and post your success in The Victory Dance group or simply comment on this post and let the congrats come flying in.

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Published on September 10, 2012 21:01
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