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the editors take over

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Jim Dalling
Jan 21, 2024
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During an online workshop - likely ‘The Marketing Seminar’, I met someone who said that if you’re going to play a game, go in a direction with content or play with an audience, you need to go all the way.

THE BOOK OF WRONG ANSWERS has become a fully meta endeavour without using any of Zuck’s tools.

I’m telling the story with three main voices - the narrator, the author and, the book - hey call me Mr. Book if ya like.

Right now, the plain font is that of the narrator.

When you read italics like this? It’s me, The Book - Mr. Book - but call me that and be ironic that you’re being ironic about it.

And I’m the writer pretending to be an author so that someday I might be an actual author. This wasn’t my plan for the book, but then the book took over.

I had a role as well. I’m the omniscience third person narrator. I’m the voice of god. Together we will deliver the fourth volume of the Book of Wrong Answers. We’ll do the middle, then the beginning and then the end.

That decision came from m…

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