The Two Narrators

[RK Capps]

This is for screenwriting. As far as I know, there's no such thing as a 'naive' narrator for novels, but it's a great explanation of past and present tense.

 

[Rich.]

The naive narrator in written fiction is the first person, or limited third person, narrator (probably also second person, but second is so uncommon most of us needn't worry about it).

Naive in this sense is the opposite of omniscient. A naive narrator is one that doesn't know everything that's going on.