I realize that first person point of view is often regarded as omniscient. The writer is in control of his universe and knows everything about everybody that he creates as well as what will happen in the future and what has happened in the past.
Omniscient sort of means know it all.
Like God.
The writer is like God.
I don’t think the writer truly knows everything about every character that he writes about. I know for sure that I don’t.
I do know, however, that I have power over my characters. I can make them fall in love. I can make them fly. I can make them crawl. I can make them time travel back to Troy to catch the battle between Hector and Achilles.
I don’t know everytning about them but I do know that they have to do whatever I want whomever they are.
I’m not omniscient.
I’m omnipotent.
Let’s drop the idea of omniscience and bring in the concept of omnipotence when describing point of view.
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