6 Illustrations of How Setting Works in Literature
In its most basic meaning, setting in fiction refers to the time and place in…
How to Recognize an Unreliable Narrator
Here’s a question that comes up periodically on literary sites: I’m having trouble reading books…
Moral Depth in Current Fiction
Introduction I came upon Adam O’Fallon Price’s article The Subjective Mood, in which he laments…
The Interplay of Plot and Character in Fiction
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12 Novels That Changed How I Read Fiction
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Announcing Life Stories in Literature
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My Top 5 Novels of All Time
Every December 31st I sit down with the list of books I read that year…
How I Review Novels
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Reading in Flow
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How Narrative Structure Works in Fiction
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Why I Blog
Looking over some blogging resources recently reminded me that the first question would-be bloggers are…
Flow
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience HarperCollins, 1990 ISBN 0–06–092043–2 Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Finding…