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Brandiwynš¶Sprinting  , also known as Michelle Tuesday, is a musician, educator and writer hailing from Columbus, Ohio.
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La Bene Vita #1101182 added November 8, 2025 at 9:06pm
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Unreliable Narrators 2025: Foreshadowing
Mostly, I just wanted this title as a callback to my previous blog post, but I guess it could foreshadow the plot of my current novel project. If you're worried about spoilers, you could plug your ears and shout, "La, la, laaaaaaaa!" while you read this post. But the truth is, I don't even know what all is going to happen in this novel (see my Notebook for all the havoc my characters are causing), so I can't possibly be revealing too much, here. If I do, I'll be as surprised as you, not to mention, after having the ending ruined for myself, I might quit the project altogether out of sheer boredom.
I do wish there were a more efficient, less tedious way to pluck these ideas out of my head and get them in print. Sprinting via the "Sprint Writers Competition"  helps, but it also caused all of my unruly characters, and, inexplicably (j/k, it's entirely explicable: I'm typing faster than my brain can think), seems to reduce my vocabulary back to a toddler lever. Okay, maybe Kindergarten. I may have written [find a better phrase] or [OMG THIS SUCKS WHY AM I WRITING SO MUCH EXPOSITION] more than actual narrative and dialog.
But from a technical, structural perspective, I'm playing with unreliable narrators this year. It's definitely an experiment, because I have six - (points of view? perspectives? I've thought I had those straight for decades, but even Google can't agree with itself anymore, so now I'm questioning everything I ever thought I knew) - six characters whose heads my narrator is in (recounting in 3rd person) during various scenes throughout the story. And they're all unreliable. It's like Gone Girl on steroids: You never know whose truth is the unequivocal, impartial truth.
It's slowing down my word count, but it's fun crafting scenes such that I switch to another character's viewpoint just before possibly revealing something definitive to the reader. Must... leave... them... hanging!!!
Have you ever tried something like this? Do you think it's possible to pull off that many unreliable narrators?
I guess I'm not giving anything away, after all.  |
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