Can I have the progtangonist talk to the reader in story?

[AchmodinIVSWE]

Ooo, what was it?

I don't know

 

[Nolff]

I don't know

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I was about to do something like this for my story (I am still writing the first chapter after being on it for about 3-4 years). I was gonna have the viewer's POV be an actual thing in the story, something like a soul. and I was gonna have the MC acknowledge the reader. But I scraped it because I felt it would detract from the dark fantasy setting I am writing. Though I have an idea of how it would work. but I am not confident in doing that right.

It can be very well handled, but it can also be kind of irritating, depending on how it is done. E. R. Eddings has a kind of disembodied spirit acting between the characters and the reader in "The Worm Ouroboros" - It is kind of fun for two or three chapters but I have so far, on five attempts, never made it past chapter seven (and only got past chapter 5 once); I think the author was going for a "classic storyteller sitting down with the audience and narrating the story with occasional embellishments" but not quite sure (and not sure if it continues through the book or not)

 

[MesaMesa17]

If done right, I wouldn't mind it!

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