January 11, 2019
On the Three-Act Structure
One of the central lessons I learned back when I was still attempting to become a screenwriter as well as a fiction writer (something I’ve discussed on this blog a […]
September 20, 2018
How to Write an Ideological Novel
It is a truth if not universally then at least widely acknowledged that all fiction is inherently political. In fact, today, many writers would argue that all fiction should be […]
June 19, 2018
On Aesthetics and Politics: Alisa Ganieva’s The Mountain and the Wall
There’s a facile distinction that’s often drawn between a novel’s aesthetics and its politics, one generally made by those in favor of the former over the latter, as if literature […]