Family Stories: Alternatives for Load-Bearing Clichés
The author of Family Family explores why tired tropes proliferate in fiction—and how to avoid them.
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The author of Family Family explores why tired tropes proliferate in fiction—and how to avoid them.
The author of The Last Language considers the relationship between character and speech.
The author of The Last Language considers how to strike the right note of ambiguity in a novel.
“I need to be authentic to my culture and invite readers to embrace the Vietnamese culture through my work.” —Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, author of Dust Child
The author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling counts the many ways a novelist may get lost, but ultimately find a way through, a book project.
The author of The Step Back offers strategies for short-story writers trying to draft a novel for the first time and shares how a new approach—aiming to pen a thousand pages—led to his first novel.
The editors of Poets & Writers Magazine recommend fourteen books that were published in March 2020.