Teaching Narrative Mode with Short Stories
Narrative mode is what makes fiction different from essays, history, and art forms like video and images. Without fiction ...
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- Mar 29, 2021
- 2 min
The Magic of Storytelling: Real and Fictional
I recently listened to the podcast “The Story of Your Life” on Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam. I felt like I was listening to ...
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- Feb 19, 2021
- 3 min
Magical Realism: Interpretation and Creation
Magical realism goes beyond the place that a metaphor takes us. It goes beyond the realm of comparison.
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- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
Bite-sized Prose, Buffet Conversations
Because distributing books has been a challenge this year, some of my students have been reading novels on their computer. From the...
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- Apr 20, 2020
- 4 min
Why Short Fiction?
This is the magic of fiction. Depending on the story, the author must pick and choose what facts and thoughts the audience will know and not
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- Oct 30, 2019
- 4 min
The Imaginary Reality of Technology and Fiction
More and more, the screen determines who we are, and not our relationships with real people.
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