Category: Contract with the Reader
I’d never been to a reader’s group. The last Saturday evening in August - I imagined folding chairs and a clamshell of store-bought cookies. Bottles…
Read MoreIn the preface to his book Jerusalem, Simon Sebag Montefiore states, "I have tried to avoid teleology – writing history as if every event were…
Read MoreWhat are we trying to do as writers of story, especially long-form story? I recently read an interview Joyce Cary gave to The Paris Review…
Read MoreFiction 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 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,…
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