Feo Takahari
Auror
In retrospect, I'm not sure why I haven't asked about this already.
I've spent the past few months trying to resolve issues in a rough-drafted manuscript, and their chief cause is an unreliable viewpoint character, oblivious subtype. I'm trying to create the impression that she largely ignores the world around her, but the impression I've instead created is that the world around her is generic and poorly developed. How can I show that there's something she's missing? More broadly speaking, how does one convey to the reader that there are things the viewpoint character isn't conveying?
(To be clear, this specific character isn't the narrator, but I stick so closely to her viewpoint that she might as well be. I do have a few scenes from the perspective of a character who's more curious about what's going on, but he's also much less informed than she is.)
I've spent the past few months trying to resolve issues in a rough-drafted manuscript, and their chief cause is an unreliable viewpoint character, oblivious subtype. I'm trying to create the impression that she largely ignores the world around her, but the impression I've instead created is that the world around her is generic and poorly developed. How can I show that there's something she's missing? More broadly speaking, how does one convey to the reader that there are things the viewpoint character isn't conveying?
(To be clear, this specific character isn't the narrator, but I stick so closely to her viewpoint that she might as well be. I do have a few scenes from the perspective of a character who's more curious about what's going on, but he's also much less informed than she is.)