: Re: What's it called? As a novelist my preference is for what I call an 'active narrator'. The terminology confuses most as they think I'm talking about sentence construction and the benefits of

@Kevin153

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The technique you're describing seems very similar to close third person.

Of course, close third person supplies only to third person, but the key variable here is narrative distance. In first person, the distance is always "close" (though I'm sure someone will now cite a brilliant example of distant first person). In third person, you can choose (and vary) the distance.

In The Power of Point of View, Alicia Rasley writes about deep immersion, in which the narration is deeply in the character's voice, with as little filtering as possible between the character's experience and the text.

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