You've written a scene that works beautifully from one character's viewpoint, then discovered that the other person in the room has an equally important story. The temptation is to switch narrators immediately. Sometimes that solves the problem. Just as often, it drains the scene of tension, repeats information, or leaves readers unsure whose mind they're […]
[1] Table of Contents Side-by-Side: 7 Literary Asides 1. Authorial Intrusion and First-Person Narrator Asides 2. Footnotes, Endnotes, and Marginal Commentary 3. Stream-of-Consciousness and Internal Monologue Asides 4. Dialogue Tags and Attributional Asides 5. Dramatic Asides in Stage Plays and Performance 6. Metafictional Asides and Breaking the Fourth Wall 7. Parenthetical Asides and In-Scene Commentary […]