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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
I just don’t understand the “no present tense” and “no first person” thing at all.
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I was once thinking about the first person narrative and was thinking that it ought to be limiting since everything has to be filtered through the narrator. With a third person narrative the writer can switch to different characters or tell you what other characters are thinking. But in practice I've never read a first person narrative where I was aware of that; good books are written in the first person narrative as well as the third person narrative. And a first person narrative is how we live our lives so maybe that's also part of why they can work well.