If you want to create something unique, research is a must. We’ve said as much before, but what we haven’t told you is that the internet isn’t really enough. To tell the reader something they didn’t already know, to mine the details that make your work feel realistic, to hit the third draft and suddenly
There’s a well-worn writers’ tenet that has likely been circling for as long as writing has been a thing. You’ve probably heard it: write what you know. Now, this is, generally speaking, good advice. Of course, it can easily be misinterpreted by writers who go on to produce thinly veiled autobiographies disguised as fiction, but
There you are, writing some contemporary or YA fiction, when suddenly you feel the urge to drop in some real-world references to other well-known franchises. Maybe you want to let your readers know your character is a video game nerd by namedropping Ghouls ’n Ghosts, or maybe you want to draw conscious stylistic parallels between
When Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for A Visit from the Goon Squad in 2011, it was many readers’ first time hearing her name. Known previously for her 2006 novel The Keep and her earlier, less well-known works Emerald City, The Invisible Circus, and Look at Me, Egan was propelled into well-earned literary stardom
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