Listening to Aaron Smith’s explanation (in the recording of Chris Evans’ interview of Aaron and me for WRUV) of the historical situation that forms the backdrop for the novel he was writing during NaNoWriMo, I began thinking about the different ways that facts can be involved in fiction. In the normal course of things, facts [...]
Archive for December, 2009
NaNoWriMo: Writing Fiction vs Writing Nonfiction 2 Imagination and Fact
Posted in Fiction, NaNoWriMo, Nonfiction on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
NaNoWriMo: Writing Fiction vs Writing Nonfiction 1 Audience and Sequence
Posted in Fiction, NaNoWriMo, Narration, Nonfiction, Writing Techniques on December 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In my interview with Chris Evans on WRUV (University of Vermont radio) yesterday, the subject of the differences in writing fiction and nonfiction was touched on. I’d like to expand on it a bit here. During NaNoWriMo, I began writing a novel, a genre that I had not worked in since my bachelor’s paper—a mystery [...]
NaNoWriMo: Fruits of My Labor
Posted in Character, NaNoWriMo, Reading and Writing on December 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today I was privileged to have the opportunity to experience a special kind of reward for participating in NaNoWriMo: at the invitation of Chris Evans, I read an excerpt from Chapter 14 of the first novel of my Bent Parallels Quintology on UVM station WRUV this morning at 10. Aaron Smith, another Verimo, was the [...]
NaNoWriMo: How I Made It Work for Me
Posted in NaNoWriMo, Writing Techniques on December 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I knew from the start that winning NaNoWriMo in NaNoWriMo terms was not possible for me this year. First of all, I had begun thinking about a novel in 2005, it had grown to a set of five since then, and I had been drafting the first chapter (and redrafting and redrafting) since May. It [...]
