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Storytelling and Literary Fiction

December 22, 2010

Image via Wikipedia I once heard someone jokingly define literary fiction as: “A type of book where nothing really happens, but you still feel sad at the end anyway.” While this may be something of an exaggeration (albeit a slight one), much of what today’s literati label as “moving” or “evocative” is often devoid of what [...]

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When Will You Make an End of It…?

October 25, 2010

Image via Wikipedia …When I am finished, of course.  When you start delving into the process of writing you’ll very quickly find some famous writer who talks about not being in control of his story.  The story tells them what to do.  Maybe they just start writing with no idea what’s going to happen or [...]

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“Try to See It My Way” (Writers and Negative Capability)

October 13, 2010

Image by Getty Images via @daylife “The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.” —Leo Stein, American art collector and critic In an 1817 letter to a friend, the poet John Keats describes one of the qualities that makes writers [...]

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Who Is My Audience?

September 29, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Mark Twain claimed that, before he ever published a book, he would “always read the manuscript to a private group of friends, composed as follows: 1. Man and a woman with no sense of humor. 2. Man and a woman with a medium sense of humor. 3. Man and a woman with [...]

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The New Archetypes: Part 5

September 27, 2010

Image via Wikipedia Until now the archetypes I’ve talked about have been heroes.  Well technically some of them like the Rogue Cop and the Assassin are antiheroes but they’re all the protagonist.  So how about a little love for the villain?  In ancient myth the hero’s opponents are often pretty simple monsters, a dragon or [...]

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