Oh, well, everything in your post. Especially this:
"What's a good narrator for this story?"
“The main question is, what's the narrator's attitude towards the action? Amused, regretful, angry, dismissive, ironic? And is this in order to inspire the same attitude in the reader, or to give the reader something to argue with?”
Before that I was so lost and confused about the perceptions of my MC by my insightful readers, who only recently uncovered the meaning of “omniscience” to me in terms of hindsight. So I started wondering what exactly would work better for “this” story.
So by stressing the “attitude”, you practically spelled out what I was looking for but couldn’t form it in my mind.
Thank you again, and thank you, girlyswot, for a very useful article.
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"What's a good narrator for this story?"
“The main question is, what's the narrator's attitude towards the action? Amused, regretful, angry, dismissive, ironic? And is this in order to inspire the same attitude in the reader, or to give the reader something to argue with?”
Before that I was so lost and confused about the perceptions of my MC by my insightful readers, who only recently uncovered the meaning of “omniscience” to me in terms of hindsight. So I started wondering what exactly would work better for “this” story.
So by stressing the “attitude”, you practically spelled out what I was looking for but couldn’t form it in my mind.
Thank you again, and thank you, girlyswot, for a very useful article.