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: Writing a narrator with a different character to the author Many authors use a narrator with a similar character across several books - to the extent that it resembles a brand identity. Others
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: How do readers/writers alike feel about too much narration in a story? My question is pretty much summed up in the title. My story includes a lot of narration. Narrating events, narrating character's
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: Using the Voice wisely Of course, there aren't any rules in writing. But when something is used in exaggeration (or even Isn't used at all!) without prudence, it can ruins everything. A voice
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: What is Third Person Dramatic? Often told as "Third Person Objective" or "Third Person Camera" it is some kind of mixture between cinema and writing. (Crazy stuff, I know.) What is this Third
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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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: 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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: 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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: Tech-limited metaphors? In my native language, we sometimes use the expression "to be shot by (Someone)'s eyes", meaning that Someone is staring at you very intently and in an examining, measuring
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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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: 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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: 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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: 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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: How can I hint at biases in a fictional first person account? In the story that I'm preparing to write, the main character is involved in many tense encounters and begins to develop a slightly
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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 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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: 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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: 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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: 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 is the technique of displaying stream of thought in third person? I've noticed that authors often show the main character's though process in third person using the prose itself, almost
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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 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 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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: 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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: 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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