Hey! Hi! I’m back. I saw lots of these:
And one of these:
And I did a lot of reading for fun. The book I want to tell you about was originally written in the 1980s and reprinted in 2001. It’s called Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin. Now, you may read the description and decide that it’s just not your cup of tea, and that’s fine, but if you are a writer of fiction you owe it to yourself to at least locate a hard copy of this book and read the table of contents. It will show you that there is more than one way to structure a novel. Story aside, I love the way this book is presented. Some books don’t need a lot of exposition to get the tale across; for others, the back story is the story. If you’re struggling with ways to cram your rich history into bite-sized pieces of dialogue, stop now. Give the details the space and time they deserve.
Notes from the field coming soon!