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BBC Open Book – why is most writing written in the third person?

Posted on December 7, 2024December 8, 2024 by 3nxctRqvn28

Richard Beard explores how and why most fiction is written in the third person.

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BBC Open Book – the ‘I’ viewpoint of the first person
BBC Open Book – the second person ‘you’ in fiction writing

Winner PEN Ackerley Prize 2018,​ Finalist NBCC Award 2018, Shortlisted Rathbones Folio Prize 2018 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2018


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