Questions about characters acknowledging they are fictional, usually by addressing the audience, or interacting with the author.
Questions tagged [breaking-the-fourth-wall]
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Can your narrator talk to the reader of the novel?
This is an excerpt from a novel I have started writing.
Penry laughed. His face changed instantly. His disbelief changed into
happiness, into almost the serenity in my dreams. It seemed to be the same feeling I had when… Then it hit me! I knew…
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Book/Novel About aliens fearing humans - perspective delivery
I read a very interesting novel or book about aliens accidentally discovering humans and finding out how dangerous they are, where the galaxy got scared of humans and their potential to wipe out all life or dominate.
It was about an ordinary human…
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Fourth wall break - character talks to author, not audience
I was wondering how I might go about writing a character in a story that breaks the fourth wall and talks to the writer?
There are many examples where the character talks to the audience to give his/her commentary on the situation, but not sure if a…
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Breaking the Fourth Wall in Creative Non-Fiction
I went to see Deadpool 2 at the weekend and it got me thinking about fourth wall awareness in my own writing, specifically in creative non-fiction that's based on my own life.
According to the first site linked to above, fourth wall awareness…
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Is it ok to temporarily break immersion in a tutorial for a game?
At the start of a game, you sometimes have some character explaining things to you, the player, instead of the character, telling them to press A to do this and that. Paper Mario I think even makes a joke by saying that what they are about to say is…
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Is it okay to break the fourth wall sometimes?
So in my book, I have a scene in a diner where the narrator is yapping on and then the Main character tells them to shut up. Is that an okay thing to add? I'm a first time writer so I'm not sure.
Pasted from the story: "Jack hated it. He thought it…
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How do I avoid using "the" in a story?
No matter what I do, I can't find a way around "the" when it comes to writing stories or making a story that feels like it's repeating. Here's an example of what I've gotten so far with a rewrite I started last week. Keep in mind that I don't have…
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