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Incorporate the Reader
For those of you who are familiar with my challenges, you know that I tend to make them pretty complicated. This one, however, tops them all. Write a story that incorporates the reader into it as much as possible. For example, write a police report as if the reader were the detective, or a medical journal as if the reader were the doctor, and so forth. And if you really want to impress, and if you have the mind for it, perhaps try writing a “choose your own adventure” story (I am not sure how this would work, but hey, why not?). I am curious to see how this goes, so, have fun with it!
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Shardagra
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A story about you

Curious? Suspicious? Maybe, I can't tell..

What comes next?

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They hadn't yet though about how the words sounded, in their head, until reading those last words, in this longer-than-average sentence.

Longer.

How is it spoken, in the silence? With an accent, perhaps? A whispered sound? Loudly?

Loud. Loud. Is it louder when it's straight, or tilted? What about Bold? What about NOW? Why so different? Are they different?

A pause. Perhaps the reader considers the voice reading this in their mind. Are they different when they're spoken aloud? (Are those voices the same? Really? )

Now the reader slows. down. stops, a bit, with each small pause, or? The voice goes up! Does it go up now though? will it stop if we sudden-

Apparently yes, but maybe not.

What about now? Whisper. (is this quieter somehow, can you hear over your own thoughts?)

Or perhaps the words sound different, when read with, well, unusual emphasis. Now it might sound a bit different, what do you think? Anything? Anything? Anything?

The voice is getTING MORE EXCITED, LOUDER! MORE!

Is it still loud? (or is it quiet again?)

Does this have a sound? This, right here? ? ?

What about, !

It might, if you consider it?!

You (might) realize, how constrained we are. By little symbols, these, ev,en when? they make! no real. sense. Your brain? It. still! will pause, but th.e pauses? they! sound different. (Maybe?)

Or how if you imagine that one person, you know who, reading this, the words might sound different than those usually in your head.

Can you even imagine the voice in your head?

Does it change when you try to pin it down?

Does it fade?

Change, perhaps.

(Only you know that.)

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