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In the former, the narrator informs the thoughts and perspectives of all characters present in a scene, whereas limited/semi-omniscient lets the reader into the minds of just one character at a time. Most modern authors use this perspective, not omniscient third-person. [Also, responding to u/satedfox and u/historio .]
1st person tends to be even safer and harder to confuse the reader. Some readers prefer the closeness that 1st person can provide, if they relate and care about the character. 3rd person unlimited or more commonly known as Omniscient-- it is more fragile, you must fine tune your writing.
Best. malpasplace. •. To me, 3rd-omni is far from dead, but it is not often taught well. Most works that are really good at using 3rd-omni really use the narrator as an unnamed character well. That it feels like someone telling you a story and that they are opinionated in their own way. Without that feeling, that someone is telling you a ...
Sounds good. Third person: The narrator is privy to what the viewpoint character thinks, feels, senses and assumes. Omniscient: The narrator is privy to what everyone thinks, feels, senses and assumes. Omniscient is much harder to pull off, especially these days where people are very quick to call it ‘head hopping’.
Nothing wrong with 3rd person. People have different writing styles and people have different styles they prefer to read. Play to your strengths, don’t cater to other people. Omniscient is a fine perspective imo. it's the same with all the others.
Switching between omniscient and limited is fine as long as you make the switch clear. Starting with third person omniscient and moving into limited is entirely acceptable. Going from limited to omniscient is not. Going from one to the other and back again is just disorienting. All of the different POV styles have their pros and cons.
The first book, Storm and Promise, is written from a 15-year-old boy's point of view. The second book, Bear and Belle, is third person omniscient (multiple adult characters' POV). The third book, Legend and Legacy, is told from a 12-year-old girl's POV. I keep experimenting with writing from different points of view.
3rd person omniscient: the novel is told from what is generally the author's point of view, with no restrictions on whose thoughts they can go in and out of. There is no limit on what the story can show the reader, including hidden events the main character might not see. Thx. Added an example above.
The noblest writers, like Isak Dinesen and Leo Tolstoy, rise above the pettiness and unseemly familiarity of third person subjective, and avoid the savage sparsity of third person objective, by means of the authorial-omniscient point of view. In the authorial omniscient, the writer speaks as, in effect, God. —John Gardner, The Art of Fiction.
Third-person omniscient lets you control the psychic distance, which is very different from minimizing it. My favorite example is Anne of Green Gables, which often uses multiple viewpoint characters per scene and a somewhat intrusive narrator while pulling the reader right into the heart of things.