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Working with Internal Monologue--When Narrators Think, Remember, or Talk with Themselves on the Page

Working with Internal Monologue--When Narrators Think, Remember, or Talk with Themselves on the Page

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Mary Carroll Moore
Feb 11, 2022
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Internal monologue can be one of those complicated craft decisions for fiction and memoir writers. When to use it well, when it's not needed, what style it uses to properly show itself on the page.

Not hard to recognize: most stories have brief moments when the narrator--yourself in memoir, the point-of-view character in fiction--pauses to reflect.

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