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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Day 17: Omniscience with Weike Wang & Julia Rold
Description: The omniscient point of view, beloved by 19th century authors and most often found in the western literary canon, but this perspective came under suspicion in the early 1900s, only to recently make a strong recurrence. And it might just be the most difficult point of view to handle. What is third and first person omniscient? What are the best practices behind handling this point of view and why might you want to avoid it? We discuss these questions with our guests Weike Wang and Julia Rold.Julia Rold is a fiction writer, essayist, and playwright whose...