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On Timing and Tension
Fiction, like time, contracts and expands in surprising and unexpected ways. The relationship your story has to time reveals something crucial about your characters and the conflicts they navigate. By manipulating time, fiction writers can heighten the tension that makes a reader keep reading. Storytellers have two useful tools for playing with time: scene and…
The Power of Audiobooks
As a writer of poetry and creative nonfiction, and a reader of all genres, I am often juggling several books at once. Currently haunting my bedside table or getting stuffed into my tote bags to accompany me during spare moments in doctors’ offices and on public transportation are Hoa Nguyen’s collection of poems A Thousand Times…
Profiles in Craft: Derek JG Williams
For you, what defines good writing? I want to experience bewilderment, or wonder. And by that, I don’t mean confusion or some kind of lack of understanding. I think good writing makes us consider the strangeness inherent to the various lives we live. What craft advice is most useful to you in your writing? I…