Second-person point-of-view is the least common point-of-view used in fiction, and mostly present in poetry, self-help non-fiction books, educational textbooks, instructional writing, or interactive narratives. It's also the most intimate and immediate, merging the reader with the narrative written text. As there are with first-person , third-person limited , and third-person omniscient , there are certain key points that are important when using this rare particular point-of

Third-person omniscient is the one of the least common point-of-views used by writers within short stories and novels. From my previous blog post, I discussed third-person limited point-of-view and mentioned there are actually two different third-person perspectives. Well, third-person omniscient is the second third-person point of view. It ' s also known as the "godlike" or "all-knowing" point-of-view, or what I call it, "the invisible narrator." This is because this persp

In a previous blog post, I've discussed and went over first-person point-of-view . The next point-of-view I'll be going over is third-person limited. Now, you might be wondering what's significant about the whole "limited" reference, but it's mostly for identification purposes. I'll get into the differences between third-person limited and omniscient later; but for now, keep in mind there's more than one type of third-person perspective. Third-person limited is the most commo