Narrative Perspective or Point of View (PoV) controls how the reader interacts with the world of the story.  In part one of this series of articles I talked about the balance between intimacy and clarity in first and third person.  In part two I used the second person to illustrate the ways in which the reader enters into the text, and how this can be used to influence their sympathies.  In this final part I’m going to briefly talk about omniscient PoV and how you decide what the reader knows.  This will bring us back full circle to the question of intimacy and clarity, before I finish with a few pointers I have assembled from my reading on how to manage PoV in your story. (more…)