I'm writing in past tense. Below is a random (and first draft) example of a sentence from my work: And she turned, lifting one foot of the...
There is a chess scene in Martins Amis' Money which I think is absolutely amazing. I wanted to do something similar in my own work. I wanted to...
Perhaps early on in the novel give them a feature that sets them apart from other fictional characters. A distinctive imperfection, or something...
Good advice from everyone. I'm trying to go from nonfiction writing to fiction, and I'm pleased to see the rules are similar: read a lot, and...
The only example I can think of in 2nd person (present tense to boot) is the middle section of Invisible by Paul Auster. It's quite interesting,...
I quite like novels which give the game away from the get go, with the rest of the book explaining how everything came to pass. Rather than a...
Thanks for the advice guys, I appreciate it. I think you know what I mean by philosophizing. Not axioms, treatises or dry phenomenological...
I've spent most of my life reading either philosophy our pre-twentieth century literature. Neither the philosophers - obviously - or the...
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