Everyone sees themselves as the main character: A conversation with Larrison Campbell
When you’re writing about family, there's what’s really relevant and has meaning to you. And then there’s what has meaning to the audience.
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Lily Raff McCaulou
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Lily Raff McCaulou is a writer in Bend, Oregon. She is the author of Call of the Mild: Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner (Grand Central Publishing, 2012) and her journalism has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, and Rolling Stone. She also works as a journalism advisor at a community college.
Morally complicating your world view: A Conversation with Steve Almond
With fiction, you’re trying to get people emotionally attached to your characters, not to learn a lesson. Ideally, [readers] get emotionally attached to the characters and those characters’ experiences leave them, in the end, feeling more than they did before.
What does it mean to believe in something: A Conversation with Nancy Marie Brown
But this sense of being able to open yourself up to wonder is something you can do at any age. You just have to open yourself to it. Frankly, for me, it's a whole lot easier to do that when you're out in the middle of nowhere, you're cold and you're hungry.