Deep Point of View
Deep Point of View is a highly immersive technique that seeks to remove the Narrator layer altogether from the book. It frames its narrative according… Read More »Deep Point of View
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Free Indirect Speech
Free Indirect Speech is a technique often summarized as Third Person Point of View with First Person Style. When employing this method, the Narrator conveys… Read More »Free Indirect Speech
Stream of Consciousness
Stream of Consciousness is a narrative style that conveys a character’s thoughts and observations as they occur. Because the human brain is generally chaotic, this… Read More »Stream of Consciousness
Epistolary Style
The Epistolary Style is a narrative technique wherein the story progresses via letters, journal entries, newspaper articles, or other written forms of communication. A novel… Read More »Epistolary Style
The Panoramic Method
The Panoramic Method is a narrative technique of summarizing through exposition rather than diving deep into specific scenes. Basically, it’s the manifestation of “Tell, don’t… Read More »The Panoramic Method
The Scenic Method
The Scenic Method arose out of a dramatic tradition, championed to a great degree by Henry James, who wanted to write plays but wrote novels… Read More »The Scenic Method
Limited Omniscient Narration
Our final narrative variable is Omniscience with boundaries. Limited Omniscient Narration features a Narrator who is all-knowing and all-seeing, but only with regard to one… Read More »Limited Omniscient Narration
Omniscient Narration
The last of our Three Narrative Os, Omniscient Narration features a Narrator who is an all-knowing entity with an all-seeing perspective. In its purest form,… Read More »Omniscient Narration
Observational Narration
In Observational Narration, the Narrator interjects their own opinions, observations, and interpretations, breaking the fourth wall to address the Reader directly even if neither Reader… Read More »Observational Narration
Objective Narration
Welcome to the stark, sere landscape that is Objective Narration. The barren tundra of the Republic of Letters. The dispassionate play-by-play that leaves you to… Read More »Objective Narration