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First published on Storybildr January 22, 2021 Now that we’ve established what a point-of-view (POV) and a Narrative Voice are, let’s talk about Unreliable Narrators. These are narrators who, either because of the way they interpret the world, omissions in their story, or outright falsehoods and manipulation, lie to the reader. In the first part of this series, I talked about the narrator as the

Originally Published on Storybildr January 15, 2021 Once you’ve chosen your narrator, your next job is to figure out how they speak. Have a good long think about how their upbringing, social class, race, gender, sexuality, education, job, family home life, nation, etc. interconnect and serve to shape their morals, choices, preferences, and understanding of the world. And once

Originally posted on Storybildr January 8, 2021 Depending on how your plot is structured and the way your scenes are woven together, both your narrative and your readers may benefit from being able to experience your story through multiple different narrators. The Easy Stuff This storytelling choice allows the readers to experience different moments and episodes within

Originally Published on Storybildr on December 25, 2020 Welcome to the first of five articles about creating a narrative voice. Deciding who your narrator is going to be is not only vital for you as a creator —because without someone to tell the story on your behalf, you can’t tell it at all—but it will

While we all became story tellers because we had something in our hearts we want to share, there are a lot of us writers who also want to turn this into a career.  There are likely lots of you dreaming of massive advances and comfortable (if not James Patterson-levels) of wealth, so let’s break down