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Q&A How do I write a story within a story?

How can a protagonist, being a writer himself, share a full short story he has written with the readers within a short story? What are the techniques he can use to separate the frame story from th...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by user21564‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T05:44:48Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/25250
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar user21564‭ · 2019-12-08T05:44:48Z (almost 5 years ago)
How can a protagonist, being a writer himself, share a full short story he has written with the readers within a short story?

What are the techniques he can use to separate the frame story from the written work and vice versa?

This is a wordy short story, roughly 8,000 to 10,000 words

- I prefer the writer sharing the short story with the reader directly. First person narrative
- How can a character read a written work within a story? Third person omniscient narrative
#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2016-11-17T09:49:24Z (about 8 years ago)
Original score: 1