few tips on how to write in the third person

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In order to be able to write in the third person, it would make sense to clarify what the first and second person mean before we move on. Each type of person perspective conveys a certain point of view; this can also be used for narrative purposes; the first person perspective, or I, is used to express one person’s point of view.

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How to Write in the Third Person By. Kristen Stewart

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Few Tips on how to Write in the Third Person

In order to be able to write in the third person, it would make sense to clarify what the first and second person mean before we move on. Each type of person perspective conveys a certain point of view; this can also be used for narrative purposes; the first  person perspective, or I, is used to express one person’s point of view. For example  ‘I  went to the shops. I bought a freshly baked baguette and a piece of brie. I went home  and ate it all.’ 

The first person pronoun or point of view is limiting, because we don’t know what this  character   is   thinking.   A   first   person   narration   is   also   called  an  unreliable   narrator, because there are no other perspectives except the first person. For example, Jane Austen writes in first person. 

Second person pronoun expresses  the  ‘you’  and can be related  to self­help books, game­books, DIY manuals and literature. If we use the same example from above it  becomes, ‘You went to the shops. You bought a freshly baked baguette and a piece of  brie. You went home and ate it all.’

Do   you   see   the   difference   here?   It   is   slightly   less   personal   that   the   first   person perspective. Second person perspective, is not used as much as the first or the third. 

The third person pronoun ‘he, she, they, it’ is more detached then the first or second perspectives and provides the author much more flexibility and is for that reason the most popular form of narrative perspective.

There are two ways that you can write in third person and you need to be clear about  this   before   you   start.   There   is   subjective   third   person   and   objective   third   person. Subjective third person allows the writer the freedom to enter the characters head and explore thoughts, feelings and the inner most workings of a characters mind. This is 

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called an omniscient narration, or to put simply an all­seeing god like narrator. This type of narration presents the writer the freedom to then add. Our example now becomes, ‘She went to the shops. She bought a freshly baked baguette and a piece of brie. She  went home and ate it all. Eating this simple meal reminded her of her husband. She  missed him dearly.’ 

Objective  third  person perspective  is  the opposite  of  subjective,  only  deals with   the character at face value, and does not go into the mind of the character. It is exclusively from the perspective of   the narrator,   ‘She went  to   the shops.  She bought a  freshly  baked baguette and a piece of brie. She went home and ate it all.’

So to write in the third person is easy, just make sure you stick in the same person, otherwise you will end up confusing your reader.

 

Of course in order to write effectively in third person perspective, you need to be aware that you can use third person present:  they eat cake,third person past:  they ate cake,  andthird person present: they will eat cake. 

The most  important  rule  for writing  is planning.  If  you know your character and  the stance you wish to take, staying in third person objective or subjective will be easy. 

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