Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room

Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room

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Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Radical Editorial Empathy
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Revising 101
purging internal clichés
May 8, 2024 • 
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Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Revising 101
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A sentence clinic
getting out the magnifying glass...
Mar 24, 2023 • 
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Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
A sentence clinic
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Why Write?
can art save lives?
Jun 9, 2023 • 
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Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Why Write?
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Processing Feedback
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Feb 23, 2024 • 
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Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
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Processing Feedback
Map a Novel
or a story, or a memoir
May 11, 2023 • 
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Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Map a Novel
Oblique Strategies
Can Literature Change This World?
Nov 14, 2024 • 
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Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Oblique Strategies
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Subtlety
How to Follow a John Gardner Prompt without Mentioning a Barn
Feb 8, 2024 • 
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Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Subtlety
Hybrid Forms
Nonfictional asides in novels, short stories in the middle of essay collections, and other literary conglomerations
Jun 4, 2024 • 
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Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Hybrid Forms
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Working Annotated Table of Contents
a scaffold to hold up — and help you to keep tabs on — your work-in-progress
Nov 3, 2023 • 
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Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Working Annotated Table of Contents
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Pacing and Time
Some thoughts on the difference between Narrative Time and Duration
Apr 30, 2024 • 
Elizabeth Gaffney
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Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Engines of Narrative: Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Pacing and Time
Structures
sonets & sonatas & oceans & branches
Jun 16, 2023 • 
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Structures
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