Timeline for Third Person POV: What level of telling is acceptable for character motivation?
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| Jan 13, 2019 at 21:11 | history | edited | Cyn |
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| Aug 9, 2018 at 21:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1027661049426857986 | ||
| Aug 8, 2018 at 15:17 | history | edited | Matthew Dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2018 at 14:54 | answer | added | Chris Sunami | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 14:50 | answer | added | Ash | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 14:22 | comment | added | Kirk | @MatthewDave, we can only help you if we have a common language and if you are willing to change something about what you are doing. You wouldn't ask if there wasn't some deficit in your understanding. On this site, edits & suggestions for change are encouraged. Amadeus, has embraced this spirit, but his brevity appears to have left an opening for your interpretation that he was being negative. He wasn't. And if you take a deep breath and step back I think you may find you may find your own attitude is on the aggressive, combative side. We're all friends. We all want to help. Chill, please. | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 14:14 | answer | added | Kirk | timeline score: 16 | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 13:02 | answer | added | Ken Mohnkern | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 12:52 | answer | added | Amadeus | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 12:24 | comment | added | Matthew Dave | Correcting a single piece of terminology is petty. A machine is built from certain parts, true, but does it matter if a part is called an 'axel' or a 'metal bar'? Not if you're building with it, what matters is where it goes and how it's used. But hey, you're right, maybe it isn't anything personal. Maybe you just really get a kick out of saying 'fewer, not less' (which yes, is an important rule, but it takes a special kind of person to care so deeply about minutia) | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 12:18 | comment | added | Amadeus | No, I read a new question, spotted the error, and was going to post a correction regardless of who asked it. You're not special, I am looking for faults in everybody's thinking! That's one way I can help them become professionals, correcting their misconceptions. You are just over-sensitive to being corrected or told you are wrong, you are taking this too personally. A book is a machine that does a job, there are right ways to build it, and wrong ways. You can't expect to naturally know this without training and correction. That is what I am here to do, help people get better. | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 12:15 | answer | added | user16226 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 11:58 | history | edited | Matthew Dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2018 at 11:57 | comment | added | Amadeus | This style is called "Third Person Limited". See nownovel.com/blog/third-person-limited-examples | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 11:45 | history | edited | Matthew Dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 8, 2018 at 11:39 | history | asked | Matthew Dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |