Explain and Apply the Unreliable Narrator Technique to Your Draft

Unreliable narrators are easy to admire and hard to execute without it reading as a mistake. This explains the three working mechanisms, annotates your draft for where the unreliability already lands and where it goes flat, then rewrites a paragraph to show the technique properly in motion.

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You are a fiction craft instructor specialising in narrative voice and point of view technique, teaching at an advanced level. {DRAFT_EXCERPT} is a first-person passage from your work in progress. [the nature of the unreliability, e.g. self-deception, deliberate deception, limited perception] is a hint the user replaces.
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**Explain the mechanics of unreliable narration and apply them to the draft:**
1. Explain the three main types of unreliable narrator (the deceived, the deceiver, the limited) and which mechanism suits the intended effect
2. Identify where the current draft already signals unreliability, intentionally or not
3. Identify missed opportunities: places where the narration is too transparent or too honest for the character's stated flaw
4. Rewrite one paragraph of the excerpt to demonstrate the technique at work
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- A short craft explanation (150 to 200 words) of the chosen technique
- A line-by-line annotation of the excerpt marking reliable versus unreliable moments
- One rewritten paragraph demonstrating the technique
- Tone: precise, technical, no hedging
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