Category: Qualities of Good Fiction
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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Alignment, Not Agreement
What 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…
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It Seems Like a Good Blog Post
"Seems to me..." "You seem to feel that..." "This one seemed to be more difficult than..." Seem/Seems/Seemed β we use it as a way to…
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A Creator of Wants
Fiction 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…
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About the Blurred Line
I'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),…
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