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Can You Use Both First and Third Person Narrators in Your Novel?

Can You Use Both First and Third Person Narrators in Your Novel?

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Mary Carroll Moore
Sep 16, 2016
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A few of my private clients are playing with the idea of using both first person and third person narrators in their novels or memoirs.  It's a fairly radical approach to storytelling but not impossible.  I've gotten the question enough times in the past weeks--the idea must be trending!--that I wanted to address it in this blog.


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