http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/whos-telling-this-story-anyway.htm Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:34:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/whos-telling-this-story-anyway.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3349 Deb Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:45:45 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=644#comment-3349 "Pushing them around on the plate with my fork." Like that! “Pushing them around on the plate with my fork.” Like that!

]]> http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/whos-telling-this-story-anyway.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3083 Kirsten Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:12:25 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=644#comment-3083 I like first also because it's fun to keep parts of reality behind the curtain and then spring it on my hapless protag, bwa ha ha. With third you can still do that but as presumably omniscient narrator you need to pull it off more through sleight of hand than straight plot twists. By the same token, stories have punchlines, and good storytellers keep them out of sight until the moment's just right . . . I like first also because it’s fun to keep parts of reality behind the curtain and then spring it on my hapless protag, bwa ha ha. With third you can still do that but as presumably omniscient narrator you need to pull it off more through sleight of hand than straight plot twists. By the same token, stories have punchlines, and good storytellers keep them out of sight until the moment’s just right . . .

]]> http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/whos-telling-this-story-anyway.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3081 Bernita Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:48:57 +0000 http://kirstenmortensen.com/index.php/?p=644#comment-3081 That's interesting. Think that's why close third became accepted. I keep wondering about doing over mine in first. That’s interesting.
Think that’s why close third became accepted.
I keep wondering about doing over mine in first.

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