A Novelist Plays at the Border of Fact and Fiction
I've always said my career as a novelist began in a bakery, which seems appropriate, because the longer I practice both writing and baking the more similarities I see between them. Bread is a...
View ArticleHow a Novelist Strives for Authentic Reality
Experts, like Brian Boyd in "The Evolution of Stories" propose that humans began to tell stories as a sort of cognitive playground where they experiment with alternate scenarios. You seem to be the...
View ArticleExplore Painful Memories by Writing Fiction
But it took me a long time to understand what I was doing. The story went through six complete re-writes over a four-year period before I ever sent it out to an agent, and in all that time I never saw...
View ArticleCharacter Development of a Novel’s Hero
You both went from incomplete people to much more aware and fulfilled people by working in the bakery. As a reader, I love this inner arc, which shows your character’s personal development. This is one...
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