Random Rants : Pissed tae th' gills

[Phrossack]

It can also be understood as a mere literary device which does not actually assume any afterlife. Sort of like there usually also is no narrator following me anywhere I go and who knows anything and is narrating my life. (if there were though, I already had gotten rid of him)

What would be an example of this? Barring the aforementioned tactic of using an undead narrator, how could I kill off a first-person narrator? I'm not planning on it, but I want readers to think it's a possibility that the narrator will die.

 

[Kennigit]

moreso I was thinking in a short story a character can just simply die at the end, granted it depends a lot on the plot of the short story. If the character just gets murdered by someone not hard to end the story there, in principle. I'll post a generic lovecraft because every h.p. lovecraft story is basically the same plotline of some weird artifact/weird person/weird cthulu appearing and then, whatever the character sees, just dies (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/ph.aspx). And maybe I could pretend I read things and know what I'm talking about. I don't.

ninjaedit:

Spoiler :

wait wiki says the main character doesn't die rofl. I mean, the last line of text is just the house getting destroyed. I guess I assumed he died.

 

[Phrossack]

moreso I was thinking in a short story a character can just simply die at the end, granted it depends a lot on the plot of the short story. If the character just gets murdered by someone not hard to end the story there, in principle.

But how would that work? Would the narrator write something like "...and so I opened the door, but nobody was GAAAH AAARRRGH GURGLE" The End?

 

[Terxpahseyton]

What would be an example of this? Barring the aforementioned tactic of using an undead narrator, how could I kill off a first-person narrator? I'm not planning on it, but I want readers to think it's a possibility that the narrator will die.

I think the problem is that you seem to look for something plausible. I am thinking in terms of surrealism, where anything goes. You could just play with the narrator fearing for his life while narrating, without giving any explanation, but using it as some kind of metaphor or cool message or what have. Or perhaps you just want to mess with the readers.
Sort of like Being John Malkovich makes no sense, but is still fun and has a message.

 

[JohannaK]

"[...]so I opened the door. I heard a shot behind me." The End. But it's so much better to finish it with: "I can't believe John shot me."

 

[Arakhor]

Or: "I knew it was a bad idea to appoint as my spymaster the same vassal who assassinated my father."

 

[JohannaK]

So I wrote 2000 words yesterday and 1000 today, but none are for NaNoWriMo. I'm at 1,200 words there and I know I'm not gonna make it, but it may be an okay novel if I continue to work on it and finish it some day.

 

[Arakhor]

Or you could take David Eddings' advice and burn the first 10,000 words of 'serious' writing you do.

 

[JohannaK]

I guess I'm over the mark already, if you count school assignments. Or rather, just my final research paper. I don't know if this happens elsewhere, but in the two last years before uni, in high school and all, you must write a research paper. That was over 50 pages long, so I guess I'm over the mark. I got a better mark than I deserved, probably. But then most people did.

 

[Takhisis]

No point, if I can't procrastinating here ill just end up procrastinating elsewhere.

Ah-ha. At least you can procrastinate here, with good quality time wasting.

I guess I'm over the mark already, if you count school assignments. Or rather, just my final research paper. I don't know if this happens elsewhere, but in the two last years before uni, in high school and all, you must write a research paper. That was over 50 pages long, so I guess I'm over the mark. I got a better mark than I deserved, probably. But then most people did.

Hmmm nope. Third World forevah!

 

[JohannaK]

Whatcha mean, ye scumbag?

 

[Arakhor]

Eddings was talking about novel writing, not just any old text.

 

[JohannaK]

Then I can keep my poetry.

 

[Takhisis]

So we can set JoanK on fire, is that right?

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Tak, stop it... Or I WILL post more pics of me kissing beautiful women!

Leave Joan alone.... and all Bronies!

 

[JohannaK]

Thanks RT. I ya, man.

 

[Takhisis]

Pictures of you kissing? That's a KGB tactic! There's a difference between being a GULAG apologist and a modern-day GULAGer.

 

[Phrossack]

I just realized I am thoroughly undateable. Wonderful.

I'm also frustratingly resistant to hunger, which is unfortunate because I like eating. One or two meals a day is more than enough.

 

[The_J]

Rather be happy about that. At least you'll not get fat.

I just realized I am thoroughly undateable. Wonderful.

How that?

 

[GamezRule]

Class registration at my particular school is a pain in the ass!