Arch9CivilReactor
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I’m currently writing an elaborate story where the narrator becomes the novel Isekai’d protagonist, similar but different to “Omniscient Reader Viewpoint”, “The Novel’s Extra”, etc. The big difference being that the latter is about ‘people’ who experience a scenario that change their lives, while mine is about a breaking the 4th wall.
Trying to emphasise with the characters while knowing they are fictional rather than do the standard routine. I think I’m allergic to writing things the ‘normal way’ or something.
I want to write an opposite story that’s set on Earth instead of a high fantasy world, but the thing is that it’s not that I’m refusing to write a story about friends and whatnot the ‘normal way’… I just can’t do it. Writing that way feels so boring to me. Making me feel too restricted.
I want to have the same level of freedom as I do in my companion novel, but doing the same thing as before also isn’t my style. As I’m aware the way I wrote that simply isn’t for everyone.
The narrator of that story keeps taking breaks and doing whatever he likes (by ‘breaks’ I mean I made the narrator more whimsical in the way he narrates the story). A very unreliable narrator.
An idea came to mind about making the novel first person instead of third person omniscient. I have a character who interacts with the fourth wall differently than the narrator, but I’m worried there would be no consistency if I did that.
The omniscient narrator could be explained by not explaining it. Since narrator’s have no backstory and only have a job to narrate, but a character needs backstory and a purpose different from ‘just existing to narrate stories’.
If there was a character aware of the fourth wall, then why would they even care about the audience? Why would they narrate the story to the audience? Wouldn’t they try to ignore your gazes instead? Trying to avoid becoming a tool?
The first story is the descent of a narrator into a character, but why would a character want to lose his individuality to become a narrator? I can’t seem to think of any ideas regarding that.
The specifics of that character is that he is more like Deadpool. But only if that marvel character had time travel to be anywhere… at any point in time and space. He is overpowered in a fight and is usually there for the shock factor or surprise.
An idea I had was making him follow the real protagonist around like a stalker. Maybe the author from the other story will become the protagonist in this story, but in a more grounded way where the protagonist is like Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader. I could somehow imagine it.
Alright, let’s say the ‘Author’ is the protagonist and this deadpool-like OP character is the hand behind the curtain. Even if I write it like that, I don’t know why any of them would be narrating.
The latter is perfectly capable of it, but he simply doesn’t have the type of character to narrate for the sake of it. The former is an author, but the main plot device would be that he isn’t writing anymore. He is inside the story he created.
This makes me wonder who would be narrating his story? Why would they even bother? Maybe my creativity has run out… I just don’t want to feel constrained by the main character’s perspective viewpoint, or jump around multiple eyes instead of just using third person POV.
What do you guys think? Any interaction is fine.
Trying to emphasise with the characters while knowing they are fictional rather than do the standard routine. I think I’m allergic to writing things the ‘normal way’ or something.
I want to write an opposite story that’s set on Earth instead of a high fantasy world, but the thing is that it’s not that I’m refusing to write a story about friends and whatnot the ‘normal way’… I just can’t do it. Writing that way feels so boring to me. Making me feel too restricted.
I want to have the same level of freedom as I do in my companion novel, but doing the same thing as before also isn’t my style. As I’m aware the way I wrote that simply isn’t for everyone.
The narrator of that story keeps taking breaks and doing whatever he likes (by ‘breaks’ I mean I made the narrator more whimsical in the way he narrates the story). A very unreliable narrator.
An idea came to mind about making the novel first person instead of third person omniscient. I have a character who interacts with the fourth wall differently than the narrator, but I’m worried there would be no consistency if I did that.
The omniscient narrator could be explained by not explaining it. Since narrator’s have no backstory and only have a job to narrate, but a character needs backstory and a purpose different from ‘just existing to narrate stories’.
If there was a character aware of the fourth wall, then why would they even care about the audience? Why would they narrate the story to the audience? Wouldn’t they try to ignore your gazes instead? Trying to avoid becoming a tool?
The first story is the descent of a narrator into a character, but why would a character want to lose his individuality to become a narrator? I can’t seem to think of any ideas regarding that.
The specifics of that character is that he is more like Deadpool. But only if that marvel character had time travel to be anywhere… at any point in time and space. He is overpowered in a fight and is usually there for the shock factor or surprise.
An idea I had was making him follow the real protagonist around like a stalker. Maybe the author from the other story will become the protagonist in this story, but in a more grounded way where the protagonist is like Kim Dokja from Omniscient Reader. I could somehow imagine it.
Alright, let’s say the ‘Author’ is the protagonist and this deadpool-like OP character is the hand behind the curtain. Even if I write it like that, I don’t know why any of them would be narrating.
The latter is perfectly capable of it, but he simply doesn’t have the type of character to narrate for the sake of it. The former is an author, but the main plot device would be that he isn’t writing anymore. He is inside the story he created.
This makes me wonder who would be narrating his story? Why would they even bother? Maybe my creativity has run out… I just don’t want to feel constrained by the main character’s perspective viewpoint, or jump around multiple eyes instead of just using third person POV.
What do you guys think? Any interaction is fine.