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You have two choices here. If the object is truly inanimate and there are no surprises, then you are writing a history of the object. If the object is anthropomorphized (think Disney talking teac...
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2019-12-20T00:40:48Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T12:48:06Z (over 4 years ago)
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You have two choices here. If the object is truly inanimate and there are no surprises, then you are writing a **_history_** of the object. If the object is anthropomorphized (think Disney talking teacups), you can call it a **_biography_**. If you are writing in first person from the point of view of the object, then it is an **_autobiography_**. Outside this dichotomy, you have stylistic choices. There is a famous short story (I can't remember the name and it's not coming up on searches, if you know it, please edit it in) about a piano slowly decaying after being left on a beach by migrants who couldn't carry it to their home (not related to the movie _The Piano_). While the piano here never does anything a piano in the real world couldn't do, we feel for it as if it was alive. The author's haunting narrative turns this inanimate object into a character. The main character. In this case, you might be able to say _biography_ vs just _history_.
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2019-08-26T15:26:38Z (over 4 years ago)
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