Writing in the Third Person From the First Person.
The great advantage of using first person in a memoir or any type of writing is the sense of immediacy, the access to a person’s inner passions. In first person we see the fire; we feel the inner motivations and sometimes can reveal more of the person’s sense of humor.
First Person Point of View. In this POV, the perspective character tells the story. First Person is the second most common voice in fiction, but I recommend it for many beginning novelists, because it forces you to limit your viewpoint to one Perspective Character—which you should do with all POVs except Omniscient. My first 13 novels (The Margo Mysteries) were written in first-person past.
In this article, I haven’t touched on how to handle interior monologue if you’re writing the narrative portion of your story in either the first-person or third-person present tense. The present tense, while more difficult and nuanced to employ for fiction and therefore much less commonly used, still uses the same principles for internal thoughts that I’ve given you here.
Writing in the first person and keeping track of story time is another kettle of fish, and one that, like the soup presented to me when I was a kid in Alaska once, contains things like eyeballs. And fish heads. It can get pretty messy. (And disturbing, to stretch an already icky analogy to the breaking point, but I have been dying to use that fish-head soup for something since I was nine years.
When writing in third person POV, it's good to use the perspective character's name as soon as possible after the change. Whether you're writing in first or third person, make sure to go straight to the character whenever you make a switch. Scenery description can happen in a couple of sentences. Grounding the reader is your biggest priority.
Fiction writing. How to use structure for effect. Narrative structure refers to how a story is ordered and shaped. The events in a story may be ordered in a linear or a non-linear way. A story may.
Third person is the most commonly used point of view in writing fiction, but writing in third person is also the norm for academic papers. Popular novels written in third person point of view are the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, 1984 by George Orwell, and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.