I somehow missed the existence of inksome - must go investigate. Best of luck as you transition to your new lot of classes - it always takes a while to get back in the swing of things.
I don't know about the cutting off the narrator concept - the only ones I can think of off the bat are like television teaser lead-ins (i.e. "Come back next week when Mr. Ed says...."), in comic-books ("Batman grabbed the popsicle but - !) or in 'storytelling' settings where the narrator is someone telling the story and then interrupts themselves for a side explanation. (a movie version of this might be the grandfather in Princess Bride - "The eel doesn't get her!")
On the other hand, I'm currently reading Thackery's Vanity Fair and he pulls the reader out of the story on a regular basis, though it's to add side-commentary or exclamations over the foolishness of what the character is about to do. In that case it comes across rather like you're 'watching' the story with someone else 'watching' it too and it's rather enjoyable. But he uses it by sort of bobbing up and down out of the narrative - surfacing to exclaim and then going back to the action - rather than interrupting it for dramatic effect so I don't know if that applies.
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I don't know about the cutting off the narrator concept - the only ones I can think of off the bat are like television teaser lead-ins (i.e. "Come back next week when Mr. Ed says...."), in comic-books ("Batman grabbed the popsicle but - !) or in 'storytelling' settings where the narrator is someone telling the story and then interrupts themselves for a side explanation. (a movie version of this might be the grandfather in Princess Bride - "The eel doesn't get her!")
On the other hand, I'm currently reading Thackery's Vanity Fair and he pulls the reader out of the story on a regular basis, though it's to add side-commentary or exclamations over the foolishness of what the character is about to do. In that case it comes across rather like you're 'watching' the story with someone else 'watching' it too and it's rather enjoyable. But he uses it by sort of bobbing up and down out of the narrative - surfacing to exclaim and then going back to the action - rather than interrupting it for dramatic effect so I don't know if that applies.