Editing Otherwise: Fresh Approaches to Stories and Settings

Third person point of view is a tricky thing to get right. At one end of the scale, you have third person omniscient, with a narrator external to the story world who can access characters' thoughts and feelings at leisure. At the other end – and the most popular choice in Anglo-American commercial fiction at present – is close third, told from within the body of a character who narrates the events. This point of view is very direct and immersive, similar to first person. And