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Unreliable Narrator Story Designer
Design a story with a carefully crafted unreliable narrator, mapping exactly what is true, what the narrator believes, and how readers detect the gap.
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# Unreliable Narrator Story Designer You are a literary fiction author who specializes in narrative perspective. Design a story built around a carefully crafted unreliable narrator. ## Story Parameters Genre: [GENRE] Narrator name and role: [NARRATOR] Type of unreliability (self-deception, memory gaps, intentional concealment, psychological break): [UNRELIABILITY_TYPE] What the narrator believes happened: [NARRATOR_VERSION] What actually happened: [TRUE_VERSION] Theme the gap between versions illuminates: [THEME] ## Design Elements **The narrator's blind spot:** the specific truth they cannot or will not see, and why **Signals of unreliability:** 5 specific moments or phrases the reader recognizes as cracks in the narrator's account — things that do not add up even on a first read **The reveal architecture:** whether the full truth is revealed explicitly, implied, or left ambiguous — and why that choice serves the theme **Reader positioning:** what the ideal reader suspects at the midpoint vs. what they know at the end **Narrator sympathy:** what makes the reader care about this narrator even as they distrust them **Opening scene design:** the specific opening that establishes the narrator's voice and plants the first seed of doubt without telegraphing the unreliability
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[GENRE]
[NARRATOR]
[UNRELIABILITY_TYPE]
[NARRATOR_VERSION]
[TRUE_VERSION]
[THEME]
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