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77First Person vs Third Person: Writing your own experience
"I love to talk about myself. I have a fascinating life. I have done so much!" That basically is the problem with first person narratives. It sounds selfish and self-centred. In the same way that we avoid...
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70Narration: Who should tell your story?
It's time, you tell yourself, to finally sit down and write that novel or short story that's been burning a swath through your consciousness. Outstanding! Now you must answer the first critical question:...
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56Risk
A flurry of crimson leaves, a sneaky grin. Rewind, I’m moving backwards. It’s all rushing by me, like images on an old-fashioned film reel. I imagined the frames clicking as I wondered how we got...
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71Ratio decidendi
There she is. Standing alone, aloof. As if my very molecules didn’t perform acrobatics that made me feel like a thing rather than a person every time I saw her. She has to know. The cacophony of firing...
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77Concepts of Freedom in John Updike’s “A & P”
John Updike’s “A & P” offers a first person narrative of a young supermarket employee in a typical blue collar town. Sammy tells us a story about the events and observations that lead up to eventually...
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