Viewpoint types

There’s a recurring writing argument that revolves around which type(s) of viewpoint are “too easy” or “too hard” or problematic in some other way, such that writers (especially beginners, but when you look a little closer, it sounds a lot like “all writers”) should be discouraged from

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Who’s telling the story?

Who’s telling the story? Unless a story is in first-person, most people will answer “the writer;” if the story is first-person, some of them will say “the viewpoint character.”  And they’re not exactly wrong … but they’re not exactly right, either. In both cases, the writer is

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