As the friendship lessons and self-realizations roll in (last two chapters!), it's time to talk about 1st person narrative. Starlight Glimmer is telling this story. I am just a conduit. 1st person narrative restricts story-telling unerringly to the POV of the narrator, again Starlight Glimmer. What

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I wrote first about about hedge aka weasel words in Start, begin, almost, just, maybe... Removing weasel words from your novel. Questions arose about them because of my previous blog on

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