Creating an Ironic Tone in Your Fiction

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I like these insights on creating tone in writing – specifically irony. Re-blogging on Archer’s Aim

Originally posted on jacksmithwriter:

First off, what is tone?  On the one hand, we might say that it’s the apparent attitude of the narrator toward the characters and the world they people.  But it should also be said that everything in a fictional work relates in some way to the tone.  If every character in your story drives crazily and exceeds the speed limit, this will certainly affect the tone.  If all the clocks are off twenty minutes, this will too. 

To create the right tone, you need to attend carefully to narrative style, plus you need to think about character actions, dialogue, and setting.  All of these will affect the tone of your story or novel.   

Being something of an iconoclast, I tend to go for irony.   And ironic tone is, of course, the right tone for satire—which is my usual medium. 

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