Dual Narration

A dual narrative can enrich the reader’s experience in
the expression of two different views of the same event. Here the writer must
maintain a careful balance of keeping the reader equally eager to follow each
point of view smoothly. One application might be in an extreme event such as a
killing. The views and beliefs of the first could express support of the killer
whilst the second is appalled by it. I don’t usually write murder mysteries but
I do use multi- and dual- narration and now have a hankering to expand on this idea
in a crime novel. In a way, my dual narrative in Cacodaemus, though speculative
fiction, is along these lines, dealing with complex issues of good and evil,
and life and death, as it does.