Interior monologue revealed
Using interior monologue is great fun, and reading it too! You can almost hear the author saying ‘oh, how stupid’ or ‘the world is too much for me’ or ‘I can burn the whole civilization’. Of course, you can also hear the voice of your POV character.
Your fiction is who you are; and interior monologue [...]
How autobiographical is your work?
Let me start with a quote by Goethe:
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
Have you ever wondered how much of you is in your works? I didn’t until my father asked me whether Mira (the protagonist of my discarded novel) was me. I said, ‘Of [...]
Writing: Art or Craft?
How many times have I heard that fiction writing is 90 per cent craft and 10 percent art. Some people disagree and some agree, and I say it doesn’t matter! Not one tiny, dwarfed, too small to see, bit. Even if you change the proportion to 70:30, to 99:1 or even to 50:50, I would [...]
