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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/31875
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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 is like a guide to see the story and/or the world as he views it through his opinions, points of view and vocabulary, like feeling and knowing something new. But it can also be a neutral one that allows the reader to understand the story with his own vision, like flying free.

**From neutral voices to opinative ones, how to use them in moderation and how do we know we are using them too much or too little?**

**The "neutral narrator"** can make the story sound boring. Just like as an eye that looks but don't _see_. An ear that litsens but don't _hear_. So instead of flying somehwere, you dont fly to anywhere.

This can be a real problem if you are trying, for example, make some comedy book and your narrator is cold and neutral. Imagine if Douglas Adam's Hitchiker's Guide narrator were a neutral one? All his jokes about the vogons and many other things could be ruined!

**The so-called "intruder narrator"** can make the story sound like a moral lesson or a dogma being teached. It can point out to a truth that is absurd and strange for the reader. Rather than learning something cool, you learn something "cool" you learn something that "burns" more than a volcano!

I guess I dont even need to give examples of that one. You want read a fantasy book and the guy writes some political book with many moral lessons.

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PS: I would also like to **remember** a thing about that: **the narrator's voice isn't _necessarily_ the writer's voice.**

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