In their latest episode, the Writing Excuses hosts continue their discussion on proximity, this time focusing on the third person omniscient POV, in which the narrator is free to move into any character’s perspective. “Writers like John Scalzi and Liza Palmer are using it to good effect as a way of exerting control over exactly what the audience sees in ways that are similar to a filmmaker,” they say. “So why is it so hard to do well? And what does it allow the writer to do that no other voice does?”
