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First Person Works Like Method Acting
- First person lets writers inhabit a character and tell events through that character’s unique perspective.
- Bree Despain compares the process to method acting, where the character’s mindset shapes the narration.
First Person Makes Unreliability Immediate
- First person makes unreliability especially powerful because every fact passes through one character’s perceptions and omissions.
- Dan Wells values how narrators can distort, hide, or misunderstand reality without announcing it.
Use First Person To Distort Reality
- Use first person when you want to distort, conceal, or alter reality through the narrator’s account.
- Brandon Sanderson used this approach in Alcatraz, whose narration reflects an older version of himself writing about his teenage life.