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But I can't have the narrator simply lie to the reader Sure you can. That's called an unreliable narrator. Instead of having a generic narrator-to-reader chapter, your "The Story So Far" mate...
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2019-12-13T12:00:36Z (about 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T05:16:39Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
> But I can't have the narrator simply lie to the reader Sure you can. That's called an _unreliable narrator._ Instead of having a generic narrator-to-reader chapter, your "The Story So Far" material can be delivered via some other medium, or two characters who aren't in your story otherwise. It can be a newspaper article, a series of emails, a radio broadcast, two people talking, a lecture, or anything else. So have a history teacher talking to a class. Write the introduction to a thesis. Make it a religious sermon, or a mom talking to her child, telling the child The Story So Far. Any of these narrators have the potential to be unreliable — to edit, to omit, to lack information, to embroider, to editorialize. Your reader gets just the information you want, and you haven't outright lied.
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2016-05-24T15:26:37Z (over 8 years ago)
Original score: 7