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themandylion · 7 days ago

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One of the best things about making your pov character secretly an unreliable narrator is when the readers slowly start to realize that wait. Wait. Is it possible... there's more going on here than we thought??

And then just coming into the comments all innocent-like and whaaat??? What are you talking about?? There's nothing here that hasn't been here from the start! O.O

#every time I see a post about unreliable narrators I think of this and chortle to myself #returning readers have only themselves to blame when they fall for this with my stuff #considering how much I insist that selective fact relation isn't lying #not currently writing anything with an unreliable narrator; was just reminded of Pathfinding again #and how much I'm looking forward to (hopefully) revisiting it soon #(not writing a sequel; I started slowly reworking it as originalfic and am hoping to have time to focus on that more)#(currently cogitating on worldbuilding; really want to do more with the greensward)

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