Tag: intent
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Protected: Of Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips, Times That Hurt and Being a Good Mother …
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Protected: Of Narrative, Scenes of a Life, and Brimming With Fear …
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Of Queens, Personalities, Wishes and Desires…
In chess, the Queen stands to the right of the King. Her major job is that of protecting the King. The dilemma of preventing the King’s capture rests upon the Queen’s head. As such the Queen’s movements are central to winning the game of chess. Establishing the major dilemma or problem in a story is…
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Thrity Umrigar and the Timeless Tapestries of Her Stories
I discovered Thrity Umrigar last year when I read “The Space Between Us“. It’s a wonderful novel about what the title states, the space between us, us being a well-educated Parsi mother and widow Sera Dubash, and her poor, illiterate housekeeper, Bhima.
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Dialogue: More than Conversing
Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn’t know but the other character does know. –Eudora Welty Good dialogue accomplishes 4 things in fiction: reveals and develops character delivers backstory drives Plot directs pace But there are more…