Ray Dario
Literotica Guru
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Mr_Neb said:Not necessarily. The third person does not have to have a gender. The third person also does not have to have the shoulder perched perspecitve of just one character, main or otherwise. The third person can, and many times does, have a more universal perspective with no gender per se. Kind of like if God were writing.
Okay, we disagree on this. Unless you write. He said, she said, she did, he did, non-interesting lists of actions you are going to be coming from someone or something's point of view. And even God has a gender. Our society is way too gender oriented for any POV to be genderless. (I'm Texan by the way, other societies may not have my same bias.)
In third person it is not always intuitively obvious what that POV is but should quickly become clear. At no point in writing, and I am speaking of literature here not technical writing, do we become so disconnected from the characters that we do not have a point of view. If I found a story like that I most likely would immediatly stop reading it. After all every story is about characters. There may be some really cool backdrop of Sci-Fi or Mystery or History but the story is about characters. About their struggles, emotions, growth, and changes. Write a story without characters or without delving into and developing those characters or without seeing from their point of view and your story suffers greatly.
Okay this all is just my humble opinion and I am certainly NOT the end authority on writing, but I can honestly say my opinion is worth what you paid for it. Unless you figure in dialup access charges or line fees.
Ray