Pacing in Fiction
It’s not always a sprint. There are a great many people (and a disproportionate number of agents and editors among them) who claim to believe things like “Every sentence must move the plot forward.”...
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I will never cease in the war on adverb hatred! One of the absolute finest writers of all time, Ursula K. Le Guin, in her latest post at the Book View Café (of which I believe she is a founder):...
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…to this article by Ursula K. Le Guin at Book View Café: I have a high opinion of story. I see it as the essential trajectory of narrative: a coherent, onward movement, taking the reader from Here to...
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