Using Slurs In Your Writing?

I always think it's a little sad when people think the only difference between first and third is a pronoun change. I believe the POV has a lot to do with shaping a story. It shouldn't be just so easy to switch pronouns. That's what I strongly believe. And I also hope I never read a book I third person with an unreliable narrator. If the narrator doesn't have a stake in the story, they have no reason to lie or be unreliable. The narrator is relaying the story and not an active part of it. I think there is a big difference there. A third person narrator is not a character. It's the characters that can be unreliable. If a character is the narrator, they can be unreliable. A third person book can have unreliable characters, but the way the story is written is from an outside source and not a character. I see no point is a third person narrator lying to readers. It honestly makes no sense. If the narrator isn't even a person (or creature of any kind), it's a storytelling approach. It does not mean the narrator is in the story because they don't even exist. And anyone who can just change pronouns to make their novel first to third or the other way around probably has a lot more problems with their story than they are aware of.

 

Refreshing to see somebody enlightened on this matter from France, of all places. As it pertains to the example you chose, it makes sense; close to home for you. For me it'd be like if Battlefield came out with a game set in the Civil War with all the same alt-history shenanigans and the Confederacy are renamed "the Southerners" and fly the stars-and-stripes but with less stars. Oh, and there's mech-horses. And the tide of Gettysburg was turned by Southern Belles.

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More on topic, I'm seemingly a sailor by nature. Sometimes I voluntarily and silently censor myself. But I think it's vital to tell it like it is.