Obviously, I turned to Google and came up with some great articles on the subject:
What is an Unreliable Narrator? 1) Why are they unreliable? 2) Why is it important to the story? 3) How noticeable is it?
Seven Types of Unreliable Narrators: Is your narrator lying out of self-preservation? Is he or she a psychopath? Is he or she simply heavily biased in some way? This is a great starting point.
Using an Unreliable Narrator: The narrator must provide information, but it doesn't necessarily have to be correct. Dun dun dun!
8 Tips to Writing Unreliable Narrators: Use secondary characters to hint at or highlight the narrator's unreliability.
Truth and Lies in Fiction: Flesh out your character. And remember not to cheat the reader.
There are a million more articles on this topic, but these ones are the ones that stood out to me. They've each got different tips for writing such a narrator, so I'm saving them here for later. :)
Thnx!
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