Lying Liars and Rejecting This Month's Blog Assignment (Mary Strand)
This month at YA Outside the Lines, we're supposed to share the biggest lie we ever told ... and to discuss how, as authors, we write unreliable narrators in our fiction. (Unreliable narrators are ones you can't trust to tell the true story, usually because they're lying either to themselves or you.) I find it telling that I keep spelling "unreliable narrators" as "unrelatable narrators." Because I don't write unreliable narrators and don't relate to them. Oh, and I never lie. Why, why, WHY am I always the blogger in the YA Outside the Lines group who rejects the stated mission? (heh heh.) Seriously, I don't lie. One of my friends told me she once described me to her sister like this: "She's the only person I know who absolutely doesn't lie. Like, ever. But she also doesn't say everything she thinks." This is a wonderfully accurate description of me, thank you. :-) Sometimes you're put in a horrible situ...
