Category: Qualities of Good Fiction
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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How to Say You’re Lonely
On November 30th, at Butler University I had the privilege of hearing Eric Freeze read from his collection of stories called Invisible Men. During the…
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Simon Says Avoid Teleology
In the preface to his book Jerusalem, Simon Sebag Montefiore states, "I have tried to avoid teleology β writing history as if every event were…
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But It Is Fundamental
I know that I've written on this in at least one other post, but it is fundamental, so I trust you'll humor me. Yesterday I…
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Crepuscule
In 1955, Georges Simenon said the following to the Paris Review*. "...Instead of writing just the story, in this chapter I tried to give a…
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