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Subscribe nowFiction is unique among the story-telling arts. Fiction offers no visual images. Unlike film, photography, stage, or oral interpretation, fiction provides only the still and…
Read MoreI'm going to get a bit academic on you here. Bear with me. The post is only 433 words (including the footnotes and the title),…
Read MoreYou will try to make your reader care about the character you've created. You'll do this by telling your reader all about the character's background,…
Read MoreLorin Stein recently wrote the following in the New York Times Book Review: "There is a sound I hear in lots of 'literary' stories and…
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