Structure
The idea of structure in a novel used to scare me. I had images of an ossified underpinning that hampered creativity, interrupted the flow of prose and character development. In the past few years, I’ve decided to overcome that fear. I realized that it’s...
Finding the narrative
I’ve discovered I can’t start writing a novel—even if I know how it should begin and end—until I find the narrative thread. Characters can develop on the page as I write, even plot to a certain extent, but I have to have a basic idea of what’s going...Read moreLearn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
