{"id":394,"date":"2007-11-18T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T15:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=394"},"modified":"2007-11-18T08:20:20","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T15:20:20","slug":"storyspace-projects-pov-and-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/storyspace-projects-pov-and-credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE &#038; PROJECTS: POV And Credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span>n interesting thought this morning brought about by once again working on <em>Paths<\/em>:&nbsp; Two of the stories are in third person, two are in first (that&#8217;s it for now, though I&#8217;m considering adding a chorus).&nbsp; The stories may seem to conflict with each other not only in perspective and recall, but in fact based on choice.<\/p>\n<p>So who is the more credible, the third person narrator, or the first person characters as they tell the story themselves?&nbsp; Is there, not a standard, but an edge that one has over the other?&nbsp; Are there stats on readers&#8217; opinion?&nbsp; Is it pov that&#8217;s a viable source for belief or the characters as they establish themselves?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, we can say that the narrator is relating a story from a neutral stand.&nbsp; But how much have the characters let him in on, how far into their minds have they granted him access?&nbsp; His own take on things may be wrong, having based his narrative on how he&#8217;s reading the characters.&nbsp; And, he may lie.<\/p>\n<p>In the first person, again, there is clearly perspective that colors story.&nbsp; That, and a tendency and ability on the speaker&#8217;s part to put himself in the best possible light, make himself the worst of the victims, the hardiest of heroes, the most noble of thieves.&nbsp; And, he may lie.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting point to consider when writing in multiple pov, particularly in hypertext.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span>n interesting thought this morning brought about by once again working on Paths:&nbsp; Two of the stories are in third person, two are in first (that&#8217;s it for now, though I&#8217;m considering adding a chorus).&nbsp; The stories may seem to conflict with each other not only in perspective and recall, but in fact based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}