And here I thought I had this verisimilitude thing down. I even remember Tony Ardizzone's lecture on it from the first fiction workshop I took with him at Old Dominion University. (Never mind how long ago that was.) For straight realistic fiction to engage the reader, it needs to be like real life, to suggest … Continue reading The Chet Arthur Five Play Jeffersonville: Some Thoughts on Verisimilitude
Where the Story Wants to Go
I've been reading former Poet Laureate Donald Hall's Essays after Eighty, in which he contemplates what the writing life is like for someone whose world has become circumscribed by the physical infirmities of old age, as well by the loss of his primary genre: Poems are image-bursts from brain-depths, words flavored by buttery long vowels. … Continue reading Where the Story Wants to Go
Elizabeth Gauffreau 