Many of science fiction’s greatest novels are written in third-person omniscient. And this should come as no surprise, because nothing lets you depict a complex situation full of people (and ...

(That is, the literary attributes associated with the all-seeing, all-knowing third person perspective familiar to readers of the 19th century novel.) These would-be omniscient ‘I’s habitually ...

Be your own third-person omniscient narrator. Here’s an exercise I practise as a neurodivergent psychologist and writer: whenever I feel stuck in my creative flow or in an uncomfortable emotion ...