February 19, 2019
By: Janola Sauther
Jehanne Dubrow has written numerous books of poetry, including The Arranged Marriage, Red Army Red, and Stateside. Dubrow’s most recent collection of poetry, Dots and Dashes, received the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award. Her seventh poetry book, American Samizdat, was one of the winners of the Diode Editions Book Contest and will be published later this year. Another work to ...
February 15, 2019
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. The first post is here.
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Vulnerability:
the real author’s stakes in the implied author
I usually take the first week of Intro to Fiction workshops to discuss vulnerability, which is key both to good writing and to good workshopping. ...
February 09, 2019
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. The first post is here.
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Believability:
the differences and similarities between various characters’ expectations
One of the most distracting conversations in workshop occurs in the name of “believability.” “It’s not believable,” ...
February 01, 2019
I have been thinking for a while about how our attempts to define craft terms influence our students’ (and our own) aesthetics, and I have wanted to try other definitions. The first post is here.
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Relatability:
is it clear how the implied author is presenting the characters
Relatability, as it is usually spoken of, is useless to craft. When students say a character is “relatable,” they mean that they are ...
