Didn't make the cut

Round one has been and gone. List is posted and I didn't make the cut this round. Now that I am aware of the contest and how it works I will try again next year and hopefully make the cut. I took a chance using a first person story but it was the only thing I had ready from beginning to end. Next year I will submit a different genre and a third person view.
I tried to explain to my husband last night the difference between first person third person and narative and he didn't get it. lol. Either he didn't listen to my explanation or he didn't understand the difference. So I thought I would post the difference here.

First Person POV - The telling of a story in the grammatical first person, it's as if the author is telling his or her story. i.e. from the perspective of an "I," - I am going to the park, we went out. I had a date. However, this form of narration is more difficult to achieve in film; however, voice-over narration can create the same structure. Orson Welles achieves similar effects in Citizen Kane through, for example, the judicious use of POV and over-the-shoulder shots. Such narrators can be active characters in the story being told or mere observers. First-person narration tends to underline the act of transmission and often includes an embedded listener or reader, who serves as the audience for the tale. First-person narration focalizes the narrative through the perspective of a single character. The question of motivation or psychology is therefore often raised: why is this narrator telling us this story in this way and can we trust him? For this reason, unreliable narrators are not uncommon.

Bibliograpy - Guid to literary & critical theory

Third Person POV - The third person point of view is a form of storytelling in which a narrator relates all action in third person, using third person pronouns such as "he" or "she." i.e. He said he was going to the park later that day. She didn't realize what she had said would affect her later. - Third person point of view may be omniscient or limited. Often new writers feel most comfortable with first person, but writing in the third person allows a writer more freedom in how a story is told.

Bibliograpy - About.com Fiction writing

Narration POV - one who tells, or is assumed to be telling, the story in a given narrative. In modern analysis of fictional narratives, the narrator is the imagined ‘voice’ transmitting the story, and is distinguished both from the real author (who may have written other tales with very different narrators) and from the implied author (who does not recount the story, but is inferred as the authority responsible for selecting it and inventing a narrator for it). In a dramatic work, a narrator is a performer who recounts directly to the audience a summary of events preceding or during a scene or act. See also point of view.

And lastly all together - Narrators vary according to their degree of participation in the story: in first‐person narratives they are involved either as witnesses or as participants in the events of the story, whereas in third‐person narratives they stand outside those events; an omniscient narrator stands outside the events but has special privileges such as access to characters' unspoken thoughts, and knowledge of events happening simultaneously in different places. Narrators also differ in the degree of their overtness: some are given noticeable characteristics and personalities (as in first‐person narratives and in some third‐person narratives; see intrusive narrator), whereas ‘covert’ narrators are identified by no more than a ‘voice’ (as in most third‐person narratives). Further distinctions are made between reliable narrators, whose accounts of events we are obliged to trust, and unreliable narrators, whose accounts may be partial, ill‐informed, or otherwise misleading: most third‐person narrators are reliable, but some first‐person narrators are unreliable.


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