Showing posts with label choices in narrative voices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label choices in narrative voices. Show all posts
19 January 2024

Detecting Style

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“Red Eye” is a short story by Michael Connelly and Dennis Lehane. It was published in Face Off and then in The Best American Mystery Stori...
01 September 2020

Captain Hastings’s True Worth

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In the end, after the drawing-room revelations that the publisher demanded, I enjoyed Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles m...
10 July 2020

How a Real Story Became Incident at Hawk’s Hill

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In 1873, a young boy went missing from his family’s farm in Manitoba. After more than a week, a man of Native and European ancestry found h...
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07 April 2020

Reading the Monkey

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In this time of pandemic throughout the Great Outside World, Prof. Dina Massachi and the International Wizard of Oz Club have organized a ...
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06 April 2020

The Truth of True Grit

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Charles Portis’s True Grit is a straightforward manhunt story elevated into a great American comic novel by the narrative voice. The na...
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04 September 2014

Viewing Bad Houses

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While reading Bad Houses , a graphic novel by Sara Ryan and Carla Speed McNeil, I got to thinking about the trope of the “Manic Pixie Drea...
15 August 2012

Play It Again, Psammead

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The success of various latter-day sequels to classic (i.e., public-domain or licensed-by-heirs) children’s novels prompted Puffin to invit...
07 July 2012

Differing Points of View and James Treadwell’s Advent

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I’ve spoken at writing conferences about what I call the  Parameters of Narrative Voice , one of the most important being Point of View. D...
04 April 2012

The Sedentary Benedict Society

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At one point in Trenton Lee Stewart’s The Mysterious Benedict Society , a character demands, “Is it really as great as all that? . . . Sitti...
12 January 2012

Limits to Anglophilia

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I’m happy to acknowledge my Anglophilia, but even I found the Anglophilia in Jane Louise Curry ’s The Bassumtyte Treasure over the top. I...
23 December 2011

Bartimaeus Flattened on the Page

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Andrew Donkin shares credit for the script of the Amulet of Samarkand graphic novel with Jonathan Stroud , just as he shared credit for th...
21 July 2011

Male and Female Storytelling Energies?

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Last week, in a discussion on Facebook of whether Harry Potter is a feminist saga (prompted by this essay ), author Bruce Coville shared s...
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26 April 2011

Fonts of Wisdom in Origami Yoda

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At the back of Tom Angleberger’s The Strange Case of Origami Yoda is one of those usually high-falutin’ notes on typography: The main text...
29 March 2011

Shifts in Shifting Point of View

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Not so long ago, authors were strongly advised to define their point-of-view character for each novel, or at least for each chapter or scene...
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18 March 2011

Narrative Voice, Authorial Credit, and the Comics Form

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Last month Comic Book Resources has published an essay by Timothy Callahan about narrative voice in the comics form . As many have noted, ...
27 February 2011

Mascot Beyond Rescue

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The number of novels inspired by the death of the second Jason Todd (the Robin of the late 1980s) is very small. Peter David ’s Mascot to ...
22 November 2010

Yummy: There Is No Rosebud Here

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I remembered the case of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer from 1994 before reading Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty . I didn’t remember the...
30 July 2010

Hearing Voices

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From Lee Wind’s interview with M. T. Anderson : In writing middle grade, I imagine the voice going TOWARDS the reader. In YA and adult, I i...
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05 April 2010

Why Thought Balloons Burst

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Having traced the development of American comics thought balloons , their typical use, and alternate systems of narration , I approach the q...
04 April 2010

Thought Balloons and Systems of Narration

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Thought balloons (discussed at length yesterday ) were part of a system of narration that dominated American adventure comics for decades. ...