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Tag Archives: Judy Blundell

Earning/Maintaining a Reader’s Trust: Character/Narrator Consistency and Reliability (part 3 of 3)

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Chris Gerwel

NOTE: This is the third and final installment in a three-part series on earning and maintaining a reader’s trust. The first part focuses on earning initial trust just at the start of a story, while the second part focuses on … Continue reading →

Posted in fantasy, Genre Observations, Science Fiction, scifi, specfic, Writing | Tagged A Beautiful Mind, Agatha Christie, Character Consistency, Characterization, Christopher Nolan, Chuck Palahniuk, Citizen Kane, Consistency in Characterization, Earning/Maintaining Reader Trust, Fight Club, Gene Wolfe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Huck Finn, In A Grove, James Clemens, Judy Blundell, Justine Larbalestier, Ken Kesey, Latro in the Mist, Les Miserables, Liar, Lolita, Mark Twain, Narration, Narrative Voice, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rashomon, Reader Trust, Ryanosuke Akutagawa, Soldier of the Mist, Star Wars, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Banned and the Banished, The Canterbury Tales, The Moonstone, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The Prestige, The Usual Suspects, There Are Doors, Unreliable Narration, Unreliable Narrator, Victor Hugo, Vladimir Nabokov, What I Saw and How I Lied, Wilkie Collins, Wit'ch Fire, writing | 1 Comment
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