Character writing ideas
If you are writing a story with multiple points of view, a split timeline, or an unreliable narrator, I stumbled across a paper on Zenodo that completely changed how I look at character voice.
It is an open-access paper by Justin Lim called "The Parallax Framework: Character as Prose Permission and Constraint."
Instead of just giving vague advice about "finding a character's voice," it treats a character's perspective as a strict system of rules at the sentence level
If you love building dramatic irony without making your chapters sound identical, it is a highly technical blueprint.
You can read the open-access PDF for free directly on the Zenodo Record Page.
Has anyone else tried setting strict "prose rules" for different characters when jumping perspectives? How do you manage your narrative blind spots?
Tell me what you think
https://zenodo.org/records/20094866