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The Bank of Plank

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In writing a book, an author must choose a perspective in which to write.

Using first person, the author writes as the doer of the action “I did this, or I did that, or I thought this, or I thought that.”

Using second person the author writes as a judge of the person doing the action: “You did this, or you did that.” the problem with second person is that the author does not know the thoughts and motives of the doer of the action.

Using third person the author writes as an observer of the action: “Bob did this, then Leo did that, then the crowd …” The third person has the same disadvantages of second person and is generally outside the action and cannot know the thoughts and motives of the actors.

Many authors use a combination of the above and then assume an all-knowing third person somehow DOES know the thoughts and motives. I call this fourth person.

The short chapter Peek identifies this fourth person in my book “Bank of Plank”. You have seen this method used before in C.S. Lewis’s “The Screwtape Letters” et. al.

Peek

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