Truing the Narrative: Revising for Symmetry to Make Your Manuscript Sing
When a memoirist studies her manuscript for patterns in theme and style, the symmetries she cultivates bring powerful shape to her book.
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When a memoirist studies her manuscript for patterns in theme and style, the symmetries she cultivates bring powerful shape to her book.
The award-winning writer studies how the most powerful horror stories are grounded in “deeply human dilemma,” and how daring the ghoulish can bring us closer to our characters.
Based in Matanzas, Cuba, Ediciones Vigía has transformed over forty years from an informal gathering of creatives into an inventive artisan book press and publishing workshop.
The acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, comic book writer, and screenwriter cautions against growing too rigid in your practice and suggests kicking down some doors and using writing as a multi-tool.
Ten authors answer the tenth question in our Ten Questions series: What’s the best piece of writing advice you’ve ever received?
This week’s installment of Ten Questions features Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and Alison Entrekin, the author and the translator of Three Stories of Forgetting.
“You have to learn to write when you don’t feel like it.” —Raquel Gutiérrez, author of Southwest Reconstruction
“Art is following your soul’s demand.” —Juhea Kim, author of A Love Story From the End of the World
“It can take days, months, years for me to know when notes pass into the arena of poem or story.” —Devon Walker Figueroa, author of Lazarus Species
“I’ve learned to be most interested in enjoying the process of making something emotionally true and honest.” —Ashani Surya, author of Ravishing