RE: Telling fact from fiction
July 21, 2016 at 4:05 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2016 at 4:12 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Third person limited and third person omni aren't the same. It's not about "largely agreeing"...you're disagreeing by reference to another type of pov. Third person limited would, however, present a greater possibility that some portion of the narrative was fictional - relative to first person. In a vacuum, simply because there would be more individual povs to source and account for. Obviously, without checking the contents of the account you couldn't check a fact, but it's probably useful to acknowledge the relative difficulty in gathering that many facts from many povs, and then accurately relating them.
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