Our #1 Daughter was telling me her book club had a Skype chat with an author, and the author said she composed on a computer unless she got blocked. If she got blocked, she wrote with pen and paper. I said, “So do I!” She…
Category: Writing
Well, not the bird, necessarily, but, you know, the whatever. Say you’re writing a story about a murderer. You know you have to put yourself in the place of the murderer: Why is killing acceptable/inevitable/enjoyable? What does it feel like to think about it, to…
Last week, I talked about a book with two points of view that began well but lost distinction. This week, I want to talk about two books that do multiple pov and do it outstandingly. Taking them chronologically, the first is Wilkie Collins’ THE MOONSTONE.…