on June 18th, 2009 by Claudia
I’ve recently run into the same situation with two novelists: their protagonists were neither sympathetic nor likable. I didn’t want either one to come out on top. In fact, I wished both characters would simply drop dead somewhere around the end of chapter two–which was essentially what happened, because I stopped reading. I am a [...]
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on June 11th, 2009 by Claudia
Eerily, I’ve had the same conversation with a series of aspiring novelists in the last month or some, to wit: novels are not movies. They’re about people, not events. Even when they’re wrapped around a real event, they’re about the people experiencing the event, not the event itself. Nonfiction is about events. Furthermore (the discussion [...]
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