When it comes to mining your life for artistic inspiration, proverbs abound: Art imitates life. Truth is stranger than fiction. Write what you know. It can be immensely helpful and inspiring to draw from your own life experience to inform your writing. It can also be a minefield. Authors who have attempted to put real-life
All art is political, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The way in which we believe the world to work – the way we think it should work – has a natural part to play in both our creation of fictional worlds and how we depict our own. The connection between art and politics is
Color, like time, will be present in your fiction whether you want it to be or not. It’s one of the grand defaults of human life; unless you’re writing fiction from the point of view of a colorblind individual or your plot takes place purely on some kind of Noir planet, color will be something
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. – W. Somerset Maugham Do you cringe at always/never/only advice for writers like I do? Advice like this butts up against two of life’s most important guidelines: Never say ‘never,’ and never say ‘always.’ Great things are usually great because they
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