Political fiction is a difficult thing to discuss (let alone write!) due to its sheer breadth. Both ‘A Game of Thrones’ and ‘The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists’ are technically works of political fiction, and yet the two novels have very little in common.
Joyce Carol Oates’ MasterClass suffers from being a more involved, more comprehensive undergraduate course forced into a simpler, less interactive format, but she’s still an expert.
How can you best write about your own hobbies, whether they be watchmaking or piano-playing, in your fiction and nonfiction? Well, let’s turn to a few authors who’ve already excelled at this and see what we can learn…
The key thing to understand is that narrative exists on many different levels. There’s little that a satisfying story does that a satisfying scene doesn’t need to do, and since stories are ultimately just a collection of scenes, it makes sense to build from the ground up.
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