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In short I'd like to write a story from the point-of-view of a character who ultimately dies within the narrative without the story being either A. a ghost story or B. a life/after-life retrospecti...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T09:14:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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Ash
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2019-12-08T09:14:21Z (almost 5 years ago)
In short I'd like to write a story from the point-of-view of a character who ultimately dies within the narrative without the story being either A. a ghost story or B. a life/after-life retrospective narrated after the fact by the dead character. What techniques can I use to write a first person, present tense, narrative from the point of view of a character who is clearly dead. Is there a trick to doing this without creating a moment of frisson when the narrator dies or is there always going to be a jolt there? I'm trying to gauge, among other things, whether I can kill a character and still have them give a post-mortem, for them, wrap without changing the narrative into something I don't want it to be.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2018-06-26T15:38:21Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 4