A Few Words About the Narrator
Every story is told by someone. The narrator is not always the main character, though they can be. The narrator is sometimes a distant, all-knowing, all-seeing god-like device, devoid of personal interest in the story. Or a character unmentioned in the tale but with a powerful voice of their own, who comments on the lives of the characters and has humorous insights into the world they describe. Stories can have many narrators or a single one, and the balance between the narratives can be in any ratio the writer deems necessary to deliver the story, be that a main first person narrative, with several much smaller third person narrative interjections or a dual narrative between, say, the two main characters of a romance. There are no rules or limitations to the way in which you choose to tell your story — each story will be different, and each writer might have preferred or comfortable narrating viewpoints.
Choosing the narrator for your story is one of the most important aspects of writing. It gives the power of information delivered to the reader, the focal point for the meaning and purpose of the story and in most cases, the structure used to frame the story and it enables a point in which the reader becomes engaged with the character(s) and thereby enthused to keep reading.
