You can use a foreshadowing opening as a generative writing tool, to challenge yourself to explain the promise of what is yet to happen.
Author: Jane Messer
Reading aloud is so physical, and revealing. That’s exactly why reading aloud is such an excellent writing and editing tool.
The post discusses the narrative use of time and time-shifts and the challenges they pose for writers. It emphasizes the importance of purposeful time shifts, providing examples and insights from a writer’s workshop. Additionally, the post invites writers to join Jane Messer’s interactive online workshops.
New workshops for 2024. And other news. There’s no need to be writing into the…
Thanks to Lee Kofman for inviting me to contribute to her blog, ‘The Writer Laid…
This is a copy of a review that I wrote for The Conversation recently. Sydney…
One of the things I love about my writing workshops is that all sorts of…
This passage is from the contemporary British author Deborah Levy’s memoir, The Cost of Living:…
This is my second post for writers on the topic of the first person ‘I’ in creative nonfiction and memoir.
One of the challenges of writing memoir and other forms of narrative nonfiction is how much presence the ‘I’ should have as the narrator at any moment in the text.