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What advantages and disadvantages of third-person?

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What advantages and disadvantages of third-person?

anonymous · Answer

@BishopPatton 
Could you help me with third-person?

bishoppatton · Answer

yes

anonymous · Answer

Okay thanks!

anonymous · Answer

I know third person is: recount all experiences and feelings/events of the story, and is not recounting their own experience. they are an outside view.

bishoppatton · Answer

Third person lets you not always be in the same character's head all the time, having to see things only through their eyes. You can say, "There was a basket in the corner, but Sarah did not see it, as she was too busy thinking about Chad." Whereas if you said, "There was a basket in the corner, but I didn't see it; I was too busy thinking about Chad," your reader would go huh? how did she know about the basket if she didn't see it? (Lame example, I know.) 
Third person is also really good for putting distance between the reader and the character in high-emotion scenes. For example, if the character is getting raped/going through depression/just had a loved one die, it's uncomfortable and almost a little annoying to the reader to have to be in the character's head while he/she is going through it, y'know? Using the third person kinda makes it more bearable, and even more powerful.

bishoppatton · Answer

ok... gtg

bishoppatton · Answer

good luck... medal and fan if i helped