jaF0
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Besides really stupid and unworkable.
I've had something rattling around in my head for a while. Story is related as viewed by a party that doesn't really interact much with anyone. The person is in the room. Other people are there doing things. The person is there willingly, but is sort of being made to watch these things. Fairly elaborate, detailed things. They even talk to this person, but there are no replies. The person really has no in-story dialog. Either doesn't speak at all, only in brief one or two words, or muffled/unintelligible to the reader (think Charlie Brown's teacher). Maybe only as thoughts directed at the reader, retelling what happened.
I guess the person would be almost like an offscreen narrator in some ways.
I've had something rattling around in my head for a while. Story is related as viewed by a party that doesn't really interact much with anyone. The person is in the room. Other people are there doing things. The person is there willingly, but is sort of being made to watch these things. Fairly elaborate, detailed things. They even talk to this person, but there are no replies. The person really has no in-story dialog. Either doesn't speak at all, only in brief one or two words, or muffled/unintelligible to the reader (think Charlie Brown's teacher). Maybe only as thoughts directed at the reader, retelling what happened.
I guess the person would be almost like an offscreen narrator in some ways.