📚 Metafiction: A Story Within a Story
Metafictional stories are much more intellectually and emotionally engaging as they have layers. You can build these layers by including other text types within the story, such as a character reading a poem or a letters, or viewing or listening to a speech or broadcast.
Perfect for metafiction, hidden truths, developing multiple characters or dual timelines.
Compose a story or extract of a story which tackles one of the challenges below…
📝 Challenges:
📝 Integrate a poem that gains meaning over time.
📖 A character reads part of a story that mirrors their life.
📔 Contrast public vs private via journal entries.
🧾 Include a non-traditional text (menu, police report).
🌀 The inner story begins to affect reality.
