Good Trouble: The Art of Storytelling
Tommy DeanWelcome to Good Trouble, where I love to break down writing craft and highlight great writing and entertaining stories.
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The Details Cannot Be Ignored
I’ve been thinking a lot about noticing, how our worlds are shaped by what we see and what we don’t see, what we actively look at and what we try to ignore. There’s an entire psychology of character in what we take for granted and what we p...
Inhabiting Character (Part 2)
The fragility of the form and the shortness of the scope usually covered in a short story doesn’t lend itself easily to the use of Free and Indirect style, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t be used to great effect in any form of narrative...
Inhabiting Character (Part 1)
For most readers and writers, the joy of fiction is the way a reader can develop an intimate relationship with a fictionalized character with as much depth as they might with their best friend. One of the writer’s methods for creating intim...
A Few Thoughts on Flash Endings
Resonance in flash fiction is often created in the twinning of openings and endings. By finding a way to provide the reader with an intriguing opening with enough information to get a solid footing on the who, what, where, and hopefully, th...
No Your Story Isn't Real Life
“It (the short story) is not a documentary or rigorous accounting of the passage of time or a fair-minded attempt to show life as it is really lived; it’s a radically shaped , even somewhat cartoonish…little machine that thrills us with the...
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