The Editorial Department Schema
A way to divide fiction writing tasksRead
Closeness; or Herb Goes for a Swim
Just swoop in at willRead
The Flip Side of Specificity
Mathematical specificity has little place in narrative proseRead
The Writer’s Sketchbook
Things you can do in a journalRead
Writer as Tour Guide
The enemy of this task is fixation and tangent.Read
On Unreliable Narrators
When a writer hopes to trigger a realization in the reader that the character is not on their rockerRead
Delivery of Detail Technique
Ask yourself, what is the environment doing to my character?Read
Scene Choice
Your readers want scenes about the stuff that lives at the center of a protagonist’s heart.Read
Truisms in Narrative — With Don DeLillo
The truism broadens the perspective of the story, and can in effect widen its themes.Read