Character bias

[logarithm.and.blues]

My English teacher (who I've been asking for advice) says that my writing so far has a bias towards other characters. Is that even possible to avoid, though, with a first person narrator?

[the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh]

My English teacher (who I've been asking for advice) says that my writing so far has a bias towards other characters. Is that even possible to avoid, though, with a first person narrator?

No.  There is no such thing as a narrator without some biases, because humans have them.

[Enjorous]

Personally I think a narrator without bias is kinda boring.

[BobForPresident]

My English teacher (who I've been asking for advice) says that my writing so far has a bias towards other characters. Is that even possible to avoid, though, with a first person narrator?

Can you explain having a bias "toward" other characters? Does that mean that your narrator favors the supporting cast when he shouldn't? I'm confuzzled. 

[logarithm.and.blues]

I have no idea, honestly. She said that the way I wrote the dialogue made it seem like I, as the author, favored certain characters.

[BobForPresident]

I have no idea, honestly. She said that the way I wrote the dialogue made it seem like I, as the author, favored certain characters.

Maybe she thinks your dialogue sounds like another character somewhere in your work...or mebbe in popular culture. Sometimes I have to remind myself that my main character doesn't always have to talk like Drasek Riven from the Erevis Cale trilogy.