Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
The 5 points of view in fiction Third-person limited Third-person omniscient Second person (very rare)* First person First person unreliable First-person meta-unreliable (rare)** First-person Watson * Bright Lights, Big City is the only one I know ** Murder of Roger Ackroyd… not exactly unreliable
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
The Watson pov is critical for the classic cozy mystery to work. There’s somebody who has to actively get it wrong while main detective gets it right. This is why the first-person Holmes-narrated stories don’t work
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