Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-32864316-20170815172509/@comment-35711173-20180826220624

Underscorre wrote:

Yeah, I understand why he's jumping off the balcony, and that he actually dies instead of ending the nightmare. The issue is that you can't write once you're dead, but the story is told from the first person perspective. I couldn't sit down with you and tell you about a time I was choked to death, for example, because I'd be dead. So how is Monty telling us this story?

Underscorre,

You are absolutely right. It is a convention that a story must have a survivor and when the first person is dead there is no survivor. This death and the summary on the TV news really doesn't work for me either. I have a complete stop and shift of gears, forcing me out of any suspension of disbelief and the whole overload of telling and not showing. Maybe the story still work in the first person if we had the splat and ended with the death experience.