Episode 106 - What we can learn from literary fiction

November 17, 2017 • 00:19:51
Episode 106 - What we can learn from literary fiction
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Episode 106 - What we can learn from literary fiction

Nov 17 2017 | 00:19:51

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What can genre writers learn from literary fiction? In this episode we tiptoe across the (false) divide between literary and genre fiction and look at how the best literary fiction can inspire us to create characters with subtle and complex emotions, and settings that are evocative of detail, mood, and emotion. We look at description from the general to the specific and see how an aspect of setting can be used as a metaphor for theme and moral.

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