When we googled “writing, making scenes come to life,” what came up was a lot of instructions on writing love scenes. Love scenes would seem to have a fair amount of drama built in. But author Karen Wiesner seems to think they are a particular challenge – and she should know she has written almost […]

In the latest New Yorker Magazine, author Jonathan Franzen writes that a fiction author’s body of work is a mirror of that writer’s character. This does not mean that fiction writers are necessarily writing about themselves or using biographical details from their own lives. What Franzen is saying is that the choices a writer makes […]