Articles Deliberating Withholding Information to Create Suspense McPhee’s New Yorker article, “Travels in Georgia,” is a joint profile of a man and a woman. McPhee is following them along through the state of Georgia, watching what they… March 15, 2002 Adam Hochschild Pick compelling characters. Think in scenes. Create suspense. Adam Hochschild focused on the basics of writing narratives. Pick compelling characters and breathe life into them. Think in scenes, as if you were a filmmaker. Create suspense by strategically… March 15, 2002 Ellen Sung ‘The idea of meaning is central to storytelling.’ Jon Franklin got me to sit up right away as he talked about things like “character” and “plot”—words I’d associated with novels and short fiction, not journalism. These, he said,… March 15, 2002 Dan Mathers Historical Writing and the Revival of Narrative ‘…the line between scholarly and popular writing is now much more difficult to discern.’ March 15, 2002 Jill Lepore Conference Diary Ideas and insights, opinions and suggestions—all of these surfaced again and again in the swirl of presentations. What follows are snippets from these sessions that didn’t find a home on… March 15, 2002 Serial Narratives Their power comes from ‘that delicious sense of enforced waiting.’ March 15, 2002 Thomas French An Unexpected Ending “What Price the News” was written a couple of years ago but certainly resonates today because of the subject matter. The writer is a young man named Ian Stewart. And… March 15, 2002 Bruce DeSilva ‘Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.’ Tim O’Brien had the bad fortune to be caught up in the Vietnam War, and he’s written about it several times, and he wrote a book called “The Things They… March 15, 2002 Jacqui Banaszynski A Love Fest on Narrative Elements It’s the voice, you fool. No, it’s the theme, dummy. No, it’s the story, you buttonhead. March 15, 2002 Bruce DeSilva Endings ‘The inverted pyramid makes endings impossible.’ March 15, 2002 Bruce DeSilva Previous 1 … 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 … 430 Next
