Things Your Writing Teacher Never Told You: The Multiple Personalities of Omniscient 3rd Person: Spotlight on “Reporter”
This is part 7 in the Choosing Your Narrative Point of View Series
There are multiple variations of 3rd Person Omniscient that don’t appear to have industry-wide agreed-upon names. They’re generally just lumped together under “Mixed Viewpoints.” But used effectively, they’re not just a hodgepodge. They have rules, too, that if learned, can help you focus your story and make it the most powerful piece of writing possible.
I’ve broken several of them out and given them descriptive names to make their uses, purposes, limitations, and parameters easier to understand. All of these are, at base, 3rd Person Omniscient. They use a multiple point of view technique that will leap from one character to another and sometimes beyond, to objects, weather fronts, animals, houses, and non-corporeal entities from ghosts to Justice to Death.
