Tag: fact
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Character Development of a Novel’s Hero
You both went from incomplete people to much more aware and fulfilled people by working in the bakery. As a reader, I love this inner arc, which shows your character’s personal development. This is one of the reasons I read memoirs, to see how people grow, and I’m glad you reflected that part of your…
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How a Novelist Strives for Authentic Reality
Experts, like Brian Boyd in “The Evolution of Stories” propose that humans began to tell stories as a sort of cognitive playground where they experiment with alternate scenarios. You seem to be the perfect model for that theory. In “Bread Alone” you turned your imagination loose at the boundaries of reality. So on your fifth…
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A Novelist Plays at the Border of Fact and Fiction
I’ve always said my career as a novelist began in a bakery, which seems appropriate, because the longer I practice both writing and baking the more similarities I see between them. Bread is a process–slow, arduous, messy, unpredictable. You can say all the same things about a book. Bread is composed of distinct ingredients, that…
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