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Narrating Deep or Shallow: The Spectrum of Psychic Distance

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An expert writer of stories needs to have some mastery of psychic distance—the distance the narrator stands from a character’s emotions, thoughts, and perceptions. No matter what viewpoint or person or verb tense you’re using for your story, your narration will sometimes go very close to character perception and sometimes stay quite distant. 

October 5, 2018 Character, Interiority, Narration
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