Overwhelmingly, I’ve heard agents and publishers comment about adding voice and style to close third person POV that at least takes the character whose chapter it is into account. This obviously happens more conspicuously in first person because then the entire voice is assumed to be the characters’.īut in third person, you wouldn’t write a third person grandfather POV with the exact same language as you would their grandchild’s POV chapter. The modern trend is to “flavor” your POV chapters with narration that reflects the POV character at least somewhat, even in third person. This writer made the choice to use different close third POV characters. Because if your third person narrative voice is the same from Character A Chapter to Character B Chapter, then why bother segmenting the narrative into separate characters? There is the authorial voice, and then the narrative voice, which is informed by POV character, at least slightly. A lot to unpack here! What’s the difference between authorial voice, third person voice, and character voice?īasically, it’s a balance. Would that influence the voice? Basically, he was wondering what the difference was between authorial voice (his natural voice as a writer), the third person voice of his overall narrative, and how (and if?) close third is influenced by character voice. Even though everything was in close third person, he was still dipping into different character heads per chapter. Basically, he was telling his story in third person from several character perspectives. He was writing in alternating close third POV chapters with a cast of several characters. I got a great question the other day about authorial voice and third person voice from an editorial client.
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