Tag: voice
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Reading Your Characters’ Minds: Picking the Right Voice
This is the third part in my series on narrative mode. I wrote about narrative voice briefly some months ago, in the context of narrative […]
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Making Sense of Narrative Mode (and Tense)
Sometimes writers talk about what “tense” they’re writing in: third-person past, first-person present, or whatever. This is actually called “narrative mode,” not just tense. The […]
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