Thursday, February 17, 2011

Education is...

learning how to live in the world you've come into. And a really good education is learning how to change it.

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Potential opening to a novel?

I have this narrator complex. I’m always reading people and writing (in my head) what happens next. I know the characters well, I know the plot well.

I resist being pulled into the story.

Today I learn that the narrator can be a character in the story. So I’m trying to figure out who this narrator-as-character person is, and how she fits in with the other characters. How much can she interact with them, whilst knowing all she knows about them and their fates and the unsaid narratorial connections between them?