My writing partner and I started this novel because we both love unreliable narrators, but now we're fighting about whether the reader should ever know what actually happened. She wants to preserve the ambiguity completely and I keep wanting to give subtle clues, and every chapter feels like we're writing two different books.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two writers discover their shared love of ambiguity masks fundamentally different beliefs about what fiction owes its readers.
“Where Are You with The novel — form and possibility?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.