Of course, I wouldn’t be trying to defend Franzen in the first place if he wasn’t a good writer. Thankfully, he is: The Corrections and Freedom were two of my first contemporary American novels, and I think they’re just swell.
The first piece of advice most people will give you when you’re struggling with a difficult scene is to vary the three ingredients of perspective: tense, person, and point of view.
When it comes to writing a book that grabs the reader, authors need every tool possible. This is especially true when getting into the minds of your characters, where it can be easy to miss the key to unlocking their potential. That’s why, in this article, I’ll be taking a look at deep point of
Not all works of fiction rely on a cast made up exclusively of deep, complex, and inscrutable characters. Some need a character that the audience can inhabit or possess; a platform for the reader to survey the world from and a mouthpiece for their own questions and thoughts. Such ‘reader proxy’ (or, in the case
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