Category: Qualities of Good Fiction

  • 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 – 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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  • Specificity = Believability

    Here are two sentences: A. The man stood in front of me holding the gun. B. The veins in his neck bulged as he stood…

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