>the author addresses the reader directly within the story

as long as it's not cloying and overdone, why not if it fits in with the tone of the rest of the work?

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>>7486306
Are you addressing the reader?

>the author uses characters

>>7486315
Who are you quoting?

>>7486549
>Author isn't an algorithm

>the author wrote a book instead of just mind-melding his story into my head

>the author warns audience not to read the denouement

>the author warns the reader not to continue

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>>7485890
>the author addresses the characters

>the book has a picture of the author on the flap

>the author incorporates himself into the book

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>>7486952
What books do this?

>>7487094
Goosebumps

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>the author shows instead of telling

get to the point already

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>the author doesn't believe in Instrumentalism

>the author wrote a book instead of just having sex with me

>it's about "farm folk" who speak colloquially

>>7487145
This. Women, am I right?

>>7487144
pleb detected

>>7487094
House of Leaves

>>7486306
>cloying
u sure about this word choice bro?

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>the author uses words

>>7485890

>disliking Gogol
could you be more of a pleb?

>>7487079
>the book contains a character who shares the author's name, yet the character bears no resemblance to the author

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>the author addresses the readers directly via twitter

Joyce please die

>>7487079
>J.G. Ballard
>Stephen King
>William Shakespeare

>>7487377
What is the problem with the author not attempting to create his own character to live though but instead impartially creates a character that just so happens to have the same name?