Category: Qualities of Good Fiction
To Wrangle and Capture
The poet Billy Collins’ latest book was released in September, Whale Day. As I do with every new Collins collection, I’m reading it slowly, treating…
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Sunday Word Choice
Early Sunday morning, while working through edits to The Confessions of Adam, I came across a passage where one of the central characters uses the…
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Style Is Content Is Style
Tone. Voice. Color. Style. These are four of the many terms that we toss about when attempting to describe the qualities of a piece of…
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The Power of Place
Among the elements of fiction - conflict, character, and place - I could argue for any one of them being the more palpable, the key…
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Read Aloud
Do you read your writing aloud to yourself? Is this part of your writing process? Yes? Good. You can stop reading here. Well done. Carry…
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