Preamble: close third person narrator who is in a character’s head but is also an outside observer. Mood is loss. Tone is attentive, bold, contemplative. Having trouble staying with the character – wanting to keep going into the scene. Wondering how Choi finds the through-line that keeps her character going for pages without needing plot.
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Preamble: first person, distant narrator, recounting a dramatic event from the past, and commenting on it. Mood is loss. Tone is journalistic, but moody and atmospheric, feeding the drama with detail. Trying to have a mobile narrator who can go back and forth in time, and zoom out to bigger picture [...]

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