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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/31883
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/31883
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

It does not sound to me like you are trying to be an entertaining author, it sounds to me like you want to blog and have decided the only way you can be heard and get paid for expressing your opinions is to disguise them as entertaining fiction.

I think that is a bad idea. It will lead to a story filled with prop characters, cardboard and shallow, not realistic at all. It will lead to a formulaic and boring plot, because you put your "message" above the story.

A story is about characters and some reflection of real life choices, sacrifices, and problems to deal with.

The narrator is not the way for you to sneak in your philosophy and opinions. If a neutral narrator makes your story boring, then your story really is boring, your characters are boring, your plot is boring, your settings are boring. I am not saying that to be mean, but to help you judge your own writing objectively.

If the narrator and their opinions are all you find interesting, that is probably because you are mostly interested in yourself and your own opinions and not really interested in your characters or their problems.

That is what blogs and FB are for, if you cannot get traction providing your opinions for free, a blog disguised as fiction people have to pay for won't get any traction either.

Original score: 3