Engines of Narrative | Craft Notes from The 24-Hour Room
Elizabeth GaffneyWriting Prompts and Craft Notes from Elizabeth Gaffney and The 24-Hour Room virtual writers space
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Whitewash (Baby, It's Cold)
The recent snows in New York City were pretty. They brought with them the usual mix of sort-of-nice and indisputable evil.
The preturnatural hush of snow-clad, sound-dampened streets has always been a welcome relief to me, after New York...
Three Whys and a What
To start your story with clear purpose and direction — or to reestablish focus as you get deeper into a larger text — ask yourself the Three Whys and a What.
- Why am I writing this story now? This is something you want to be able to get...
80 Days
Very early this morning, I was thinking about tonight’s 6 pm ET Open Mic at The 24-Hour Room, considering what I might read and whether I wanted to work on it a little first. I do this most weeks, but the truth is I don’t very often end up...
All of It
Some thoughts upon re-reading the opening chapters of Moby-Dick.
Rockwell Kent,’s right whales grazing on brit, from the 1930 Lakeside Press edition.
Mood. Voice. Irony. Poetry. Parallelism. The chiaroscuro range of high and low imagery,...
Tell It Slant
On Monday, in the Zoom Studio at The 24-Hour Room, a couple dozen writers and readers began a three-month endeavor: the communal reading aloud of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. This is the 27th book we’ve read together. We gather at a little...
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Author of Metropolis, When the World Was Young, and many stories, translator of 4 books from German, founder of The 24-Hour Room, a free virtual writers space (the24hourroom.org), editor at large of A Public Space, teacher.
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