![]() Stories told using a wide narrative distance typically don’t usher the reader inside the characters’ heads or help readers feel the emotional impact of events as registered by the characters. So the omniscient narrator may reveal details about the mountain perched above the town or about the political history of a country. ![]() Details of the story world may be presented through narration in a way that characters don’t often use to share their thoughts. With a story told with a wide narrative distance, readers may notice the omniscient narrator who relates much of a story world’s background and many story events but little of the inner life of the characters. Readers are sometimes not even aware of a narrator behind a story, but they do know when they’re inside the adventure, living the events and experiencing the emotions caused by those events. Some define narrative distance as the distance between the narrator and the story’s characters and events, but saying it’s the distance perceived by the reader is probably a more helpful way of looking at the concept. If readers are up close with characters, feeling as if they’re experiencing the events themselves or are watching from inside the same room or inside the character, the narrative distance is a short one. If readers are watching events from afar, at a great distance from those events and characters, the narrative distance is wide. Narrative distance is the perceived distance between readers and characters and between readers and story events. It’s a way of lessening the narrative distance for the reader in stories told from a third-person point of view. This is a two-part series.ĭeep POV (sometimes called close POV) isn’t a point of view different from those you already know, read, and perhaps write. I’ve addressed deep POV before- Deep POV, What’s So Deep About It-but it’s been almost five years since then, so I figured now was a good time to revisit the topic. Jby Fiction Editor Beth Hill last modified July 21, 2016
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