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: Is it acceptable to use words like "heaven" and "god" when the narrator is agnostic? The main character, and the person whose viewpoint the story is told from, is a scientist and subscribes
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: Is it possible to narrate a novel in a faux-historical style without alienating the reader? One thing that often annoys me in historical fiction or fantasy books is the dissonance between the
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: What to call a main character who changes names? I'd like to write a story, in the third-person perspective, centering on a character who changes her name several times in the course of the
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: Should a narrator ever describe things based on a character's view instead of facts? There is something I find myself doing often while writing, and I don't even know what to call it, but
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: Should the narrator use pseudonyms in writing? I have characters who have to use false names. Should the narrator use their real name or false name? For example, if person A was being called
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: What are the advantages and disadvantages to leaving the narrator unnamed? As I begin to write a narrative (I haven't decided yet how long it should be), and as I develop the plot, I was
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: What should the omniscient narrator call a character? Let there be a character. Let the character's name be, for example, Alexander. Now, Alexander's parents call him 'Sasha'. His friends call
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: Should I change from past to present tense to state a fact that continues into the present and is unyielding? Within narration in past tense, should a statement of a universally true fact be
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: Explanatory narrative in fiction For a little homework, I have a good story, but its not a story that can be told by letting it unfold and writing the events that happened. What I want to
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: How does the narrator address a character who has changed her name, but only some people call her this new name? I know this is similar to How to Handle a Character When She Is Lying About
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: Can my characters interact with my narrator? (and vice versa) I know that this idea is not totally 'revolutionary' as this type of narration has been used in Breakfast of champions, for example.
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: Everyone is beautiful I've noticed a quirk with the narrator voice of one of the two novels I'm working on. This narrator only describes the beautiful aspects of every character's features. You
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: In one book can one narrator be in present and the other in past? I'm currently planning a book series that is told from the first person perspective of 5 different characters. I have a different
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: 1st person addressing a narrator I'm writing a story in first person, but with a third person narrator for the secondary character. I was wondering if there were any books or stories to research
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: Is it bad style if the personal first person narrator of a story dies during said story? Right now I'm writing a novel in which I use the changing perspectives of two main characters with
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: Multiple First Person Narrators: how should I differentiate? I am writing a novel (it will eventually be a series of five novels) and there are multiple first-person narrators. Each chapter starts
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: Switching perspectives for a single chapter in a first person POV novel, to do or not to do? Allow me to explain what prompted the question before you immediately say that it's not okay and
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: Point of view, narrative voice, and when to name a character in narration Let's say you have a scene with Maria, written in third person from Maria's point of view. Then you have a scene
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: How To Write An Unreliable Narrator? So in my latest works I've decided to make my narrator, whom is my main character as well, pretty unreliable. How do I get this across to readers? I read
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: First person narrative - pros and cons I'm writing a novel where my original idea was to use first person narrative in most chapters, since the story focuses on the main character's thoughts/feelings/mental
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: What is it called when the reader is the focal point? Here is an example of what I mean in present-tense (though narrative time is irrelevant): You walk into the empty room, you should be
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: Is there a way to make all characters to be chameleon's archetype? I've made another question which is an attempt to make all the characters be chameleons. What chameleons are?, in case you
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: In first person narrative, is it acceptable to end rhetorical questions with a period? In first person narrative, would it be acceptable to use a period in place of a question mark when the
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: Effectively conveying an unreliable narrator I have been working on a post-apocalyptic novel for about a year. My female narrator/protagonist, named Eris, was isolated for almost all of her life
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: Could I have some characters reveal more internal monologue than others? For context, I am writing a graphic novel. I always used to imagine I would have some characters (mainly protagonists)
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: Naming things the POV character doesn't know My middle-grade novel is third person with one primary and one secondary viewpoint character. Sometimes the narrator hovers a bit more, sometimes
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: Can the first-person narrator use both past and present tenses? My first person narrator is telling his story in the past tense but there are present tense realities too that get me confused
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: Interwoven story arcs (for video) - guidelines so viewers will not get lost? I am trying to create a documentary about the history of a sports team, and have identified some compelling story
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: What do you call a narrator who is not unreliable, but is naive? While an unreliable narrator is someone who is deceiving the reader (or possibly himself), there are plenty of stories where
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: What is the difference between limited third-person narrative and free indirect discourse? Free indirect discourse is a writing technique that makes the writing display the character's thoughts whilst
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: How to describe a horse from the POV of someone who has never seen one? In my story, my narrator has only recently met other humans and the biggest creature she has ever interacted with are
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: Is the MC in first person singular always all knowing? While writing a first-person singular novel, is the MC all-knowing? How do we handle plots which do not include the MC, like something
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: Describing the taste of food I’m asking about this not because I have a tendency to do so myself, but rather because I find it unusually aggravating when I come across it in other people’s
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: Changing narrators Is it ever a good idea to change narrators in a short story? In one of my short stories, the narration starts in third person 'eye of god' mode. Then it moves to each
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: What effect does the gender of the narrator have on a story? I am reading this book, and a little girl is narrating the story. It was a new experience for me, since I am seeing the world
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: How to help reader visualize the environment in a story? In a story where there is only one character doesn't talk to anyone don't know where he is and is narrating his story
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: How to stage a scene conflict that is not about the scene's narrator? I'm working on a novel that is told from a single narrator in third person. A number of subplots detail the stories of
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: How to present a human protagonist from a narrator who does not know what a human is? My protagonist is an average human as we know it in a world populated by different animal-like species.
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: Giving the narrator a personality that doesn't gets tiring Proposition: Stories are information packets aimed to "entertain" people, and just like every other form of communication, they have:
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: Omniscient but limited Narrator talking to the characters - Pros and cons It is a third person narrator that changes the character he is "following" from chapter to chapter, or even in the
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