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How often do you use an unreliable narrator in your short stories and what are the benefits of having one? This is something I want to play around with, but I'm not 100 percent sure I'm doing it right. How can I make sure the reader knows the narrator is unreliable? My current story is written in close third.
I workshopped a story once that was written in first and many people thought that I had intentionally made the character an unreliable narrator. That had not been my intention, and it changed the whole story for people who thought that. I don't think it was a bad way to interpret the story, it just made it kind of a different story.
How clear do you need to make it that a narrator is reliable or unreliable? And how do you make this clear?
I workshopped a story once that was written in first and many people thought that I had intentionally made the character an unreliable narrator. That had not been my intention, and it changed the whole story for people who thought that. I don't think it was a bad way to interpret the story, it just made it kind of a different story.
How clear do you need to make it that a narrator is reliable or unreliable? And how do you make this clear?