Writing Archive
24 Sep 2013
4 things journalists bring to fiction
If journalism’s gifts to fiction can be as varied as Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather and Donald Barthelme, distiling the tools that separate them from other fiction writers is an exercise in hedging. Kinda this, a lot of that but not always … After some hurried research for a presentation on narrative
20 Sep 2013
7 common pitfalls of newspaper narratives
I spent the last few days reading over many pieces of narrative non-fiction, to talk to a creative writing workshop about the mutually parasitic relationship between literature and journalism. I found myself stumbling over the same things, mostly in newspaper narratives. 1. Dialogues with the unseen, unheard extra character You’re used to filtering your interviews
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