Write Now: Is A Narrator Always Believable?
Have you started to read a novel, and found the narrator unreliable? You are not alone. I’ll let you in on a secret. It was intentional. An unreliable narrator is a technique sometimes used by authors to gain the attention of their readers. You are reading, but the information you obtain about other characters seems a bit out of place. And it comes from a character that you probably don’t think is a character — the narrator. Yes, although the narrator fills in details along the way, the narrator is still considered a character. In this case, at least, an unreliable ...
