Month: September 2010

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21

The Year of Fog has just gone into its 21st paperback printing. I’m celebrating with biscuits and eggs for dinner. Because who doesn’t love biscuits for dinner? Back home in Alabama, my favorite nights were always the ones when my mother declared that we were having “breakfast for supper.” It usually involved bacon and grits. Alas, I have no bacon and grits. So I’m improvising.

Time and the Novel

Time and the Novel

Sarah Stone, author of the novel The True Sources of the Nile as well as two books on the craft of writing, has a terrific new post up on RedRoom, “Navigating Time in Fiction”.

“What does it mean for a work to traverse different kinds of time? What in each writer’s life, biology, or brain structure leads us to our particular time fingerprint?” Read the essay in its entirety here.

Check out Sarah’s highly informative book, Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers.

Sarah Stone