IN THE ABSENCE OF
Adam O'Fallon Pricewriteing, jokeing around
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The Drawer
It’s always funny when you see people advocate for a creative belief that is obviously self-serving, especially when they don’t seem to realize it. A few years ago, at the height of the autofiction boom, there was a brief moment on Twitter...
On Merged Narration
Or: why your first-person storytelling might suck
Rick Reiken, in his seminal 2005 essay “The Author-Narrator-Character Merge,” says this about an evergreen writing problem with the first-person point of view:
Against the Workshop
(sort of)
It was nearly ten years into my teaching career before I asked myself why I was running writing workshops in my fiction classes. Averaging a three-three workload, that means I led somewhere around fifty workshops before wondering...
Solved Genres
On horror movies, country music, and short stories
It took me until I was middle-aged to realize that I am a horror movie fan. It wasn’t something I was conscious of being the case—I simply tended, over the years, to opt for horror films w...
How to Write Smart Characters
And why you should
A central paradox in good writing is what I think of as the Self-Awareness Problem. Two things usually have to simultaneously be true for a character to be dynamic and compelling.
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Author of 2020 Edgar Award Winner THE HOTEL NEVERSINK丨Stories in Harper's, The Paris Review, Granta, VICE, etc丨OBJECTS OF DESIRE forthcoming from Autumn House Press 10/6/26
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