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I see two problems. First, if the person died, how did the story come to be set down in writing? This is a problem whether the story continues after the narrator's death or not. Some readers wil...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T02:48:50Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/7620 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Dale Hartley Emery
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2019-12-08T02:48:50Z (almost 5 years ago)
I see two problems. First, if the person died, how did the story come to be set down in writing? This is a problem whether the story continues after the narrator's death or not. Some readers will accept this; others will not. The second problem is the use of _only_ an epilogue. Readers often feel swindled if a new POV suddenly appears after the MC dies. This can be a problem even for single-POV third person narrations. One way way to reduce the second problem is to add not only an epilogue, but a _frame._ Open the story from a different character's POV, then close the story from within the same frame narrator's POV. A frame can also help with the first problem, as long as the frame narrator has some reason to know the first person story. Not just the story, but the _first person_ story. Even better is if there is some strong relationship between the two narrators.
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2013-04-09T19:12:16Z (over 11 years ago)
Original score: 3