You, like young Miyazaki, must fill in the blanks with your imagination, co-authoring the narrative as you trudge the streets in ragged trenchcoat and blood-slicked boots, fending off the city's deranged inhabitants.
She then allowed Hillcourt access to all of Baden-Powell's letters, diaries and sketchbooks when she and Hillcourt co-authored the narrative biography of Baden-Powell, Baden-Powell Baden-Powelles of a Hero.
Even with two authors, the narrative is coherent and it sounds like a single voice.
Elsewhere, the author interrupts the narrative to explain what a non-compete agreement is.
The roles were assigned, with the author reading the narrative description ("Duke confronts Sarah with quivering lips, brandishing his hamburger").
The author keeps the narrative tension steady throughout, jumping back and forth in time and shifting points of view.
Throughout these chapters of pulse-pounding derring-do, the author weaves the narrative of Robert Scott — a depressive, sickly Englishman of average height, ordinary looks and modest means, who became the explorer Captain Scott of the Antarctic.
We learn a great deal (without the slightest hint of the author stuffing the narrative with her research for our edification) about 17th-century manners, morals, clothes, medicines, reading, eating and penal conditions.
She explained that after each chapter recounting various episodes from McCarthy's youth, there was a slightly shorter chapter, set in italics, wherein the author dismantled the narrative, in favour of the unshaped truth.
The first author conducted the narrative interviews [ 17] during the first six months of 2002.
After the fieldwork was done, the authors edited the narrative together according to the timeline that the council members described.
