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There are different levels of 3rd person narration, so it depends. Your narrator might describe the scene like someone viewing a movie. Or the narrator might be omniscient. What yours sounds lik...
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2019-12-20T00:40:30Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T03:03:54Z (almost 5 years ago)
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There are different levels of 3rd person narration, so it depends. Your narrator might describe the scene like someone viewing a movie. Or the narrator might be omniscient. What yours sounds like is a narrator that goes inside the character's head and describes things as if they were in first person, just using the 3rd person point of view. If you're inside someone's head then, yes, describe only what they experience or know. Given the way these two characters are meeting, it would be very easy for you to have them introduce themselves and get that out of the way. If you want to put it off, let another character say the person's name. "Niranjan? Your table is ready." or "Hey, Jen, don't forget you're closing tomorrow. See ya in the morning." If your narrator is not in a character's head and just follows one of them around at a time, then you could use both names right away. Especially because it's just the two of them the narrator "knows" so well.
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2018-12-19T05:06:44Z (almost 6 years ago)
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