As an author, the less you say, the better. Strunk and White ring this bell in Rule 17 — omit needless words. But what if your theme eludes description? Novelist Jennifer DuBois provides an example of what to do in her Word Craft column from last Saturday: In the middle of a novel about music […]
Category: Fiction
Our mess
Do you read fiction? Here’s why it matters. Walk into a room and lecture 25 people for an hour and what will they remember? The one story you told about the pilot caught in a death spiral. We keep a quote in our office that captures the power of story: Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures […]
