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Third-person objective narration alienates readers because withholding interiority removes the window characters normally provide into a story.

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  1. Lincoln Michel

    Novelist and critic, author of The Body Scout and Metallic…

    It's a cold mode. Most readers recoil at it. Characters are our windows into a story, and third-person objective narrators are opaque windows.

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