When to Break the Rules
The author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling explores fiction’s holy commandments—and when a writer has license to defy them.
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Ten Questions for Ottessa Moshfegh
“I was struck by the freedom of third person, how I could roam and jump and skip around, and cozy up to characters and then back away.” —Ottessa Moshfegh, author of Lapvona
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These Walls Won’t Stop Talking
The author of Eleutheria explores how setting can tell a story.
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Craft Capsule: Multiple Points of View
Carter Sickels recalls the challenges of juggling multiple first-person narrators in his novel The Prettiest Star.
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