User blog comment:JohnathanNash/Editing and some things to look for./@comment-26030957-20170201233838/@comment-26030957-20170205145636

Ever hear of present perfect passive voice? Or past perfect passive? Lol, a passive sentence can't be compound: Johnathan was explaining editing; while at the same time, I was thinking about drinking a beer. Active: Johnathan explained editing; while at the same time, I thought about drinking a beer.

Famous examples where a first person narrator dies: The Lovely Bones, Double Indemnity, Shaking Hands with Lefkowitz, Sunset Boulevard, Menace II Society, Grave of the Fireflies. There is even an amusing aside in the film Kick Ass about this technique. A narrator never needs to explain why or how they are telling a story.