About midway through my first draft, I became intimate with a hurdle I posit is probably specific to the novelist. How could I hold the entirety of my novel—of the world I was creating—in my mind? In Telling Lies for Fun and Profit, Block addresses this issue as one that stops many would-be novelists in… Read More
Month: September 2015
What Does it Mean to Be a Storyteller?
“If you’re going to have a story, have a big story, or none at all.” -Joseph Campbell “Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.” -Plato We have been reading Lawrence Block’s Telling Lies for Fun and Profit as our group selection… Read More
