Third person limited

Lebanon OR

Description

His narrative has been halting and a bit unfocused lately. The writer has been attempting to shed his first person voice and adopt an observational tone. It's a big shift in perspective, because you learn to see by first removing your I's. That being said, can he learn to be disciplined enough to communicate what he sees and feels and thinks, without shifting perspective and confusing the reader? It's tough to make that leap. Learning to be less narcissistic, becoming more efficacious, without contrived affectation. At least he's not going for the false "objectivity" of the third person omniscient view. But this exercise helps him understand why some novelists split their narrative into multiple threads, jumping between characters and perspectives in turn, as the book progresses. One of these days, he might learn to write. Not the amateur journalism of his college days or the technical and business writing he does for a living. He once wrote a few chapters about a sad episode in his life, but never got the voice right. The story was compelling enough. A tear jerker, really. But the prologue was shaky and the ending too abrupt.