Unreliable Narrator Construction

Alex Rivera

@alex-rivera

·December 31, 2025

Build unreliable narrators with carefully planted clues that recontextualize on revelation.

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Construct an unreliable narrator for this story:

Story Premise: {{premise}}
Genre: {{genre}}
Narrator: {{narrator}}

Design the unreliability:

1. TYPE OF UNRELIABILITY
- Are they lying to us?
- Are they lying to themselves?
- Are they limited by perception?
- Are they mentally unstable?

2. WHAT THEY HIDE
- Key truth concealed from audience
- When is it revealed?
- Signs we should have seen

3. TELLS AND CLUES
- Inconsistencies a careful viewer notices
- Moments where truth almost breaks through
- What others say that contradicts narrator

4. THE REVEAL
- How do we learn the truth?
- How do previous scenes recontextualize?

5. KEY SCENES
- Scene that establishes trust (false)
- Scene with hidden tell
- Revelation scene

Write all three in screenplay format.

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Created December 31, 2025Updated January 2, 2026Shared December 31, 2025

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