Category: Qualities of Good Fiction

  • 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 – 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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  • Backstory Isn’t Story

    You 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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