This is How You Choose the Right Narrator For Your Story

Distant. Close. Reliable. Unreliable. Diary. Where do you start?

John Ilho
The Writing Cooperative
10 min readNov 27, 2023

--

These were the creepiest puppets on Unsplash. Photo by Ray Harrington on Unsplash

Decisions. Decisions. Decision.

In October, I wrote my latest novel. It wasn’t all smooth sailing. Despite being my third long project, I still failed right at the starting line.

--

--

I’m a former head chef turned full-time writer. I know, right? I, too, thought my mom had raised me better than this.