Posts Tagged ‘Novel’
Getting Back to the Writing
Cathy and I got back last night from the annual conference of the Associated Writing Programs, which explains the lateness of this post. Today, I’m back to work on this novel I’m trying to write. When I look at the last thing I wrote before leaving for the conference, I read this: He told us.…
Read MoreDetermining the End of a Novel
We’ve reached that time of year when we. . .well, when we mess with time. Springing forward to Daylight Savings Time, has cost us an hour. What could have happened between two a.m., standard time, and what should have been three a.m., standard time, will never happen. That hour disappeared as soon as we moved…
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I’ve just returned from the Vermont College of Fine Arts Postgraduate Writers’ Conference, where I taught a workshop in the art of the novel. So much of writing a novel involves the shape we find for our material. I’m sharing this post from two years ago in hopes of helping those of us who are…
Read MoreOne Way to Shape a Narrative
Here we are on the other side of the Fourth of July. We’re in the heart of summer now, but I can feel its end and the coming of the crisp days of fall and then the biting winds of winter within the hot, sunny days that will still be ours for some time. Book-length…
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