Tag Archives: Nabokov
Earning/Maintaining a Reader’s Trust: Starting a Story with Cultural Touchstones, Narrative Voice, and Precision (part 1 of 3)
I mentioned last week about how I’ve been on a spy fiction kick recently, and all of the deceptions and double-crosses have left me thinking quite a bit about trust in fiction. Because really, every piece of fiction is a … Continue reading
Posted in fantasy, Genre Observations, Science Fiction, writing, Writing
Tagged Cultural Touchstones, Dealing with Dragons, Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Lolita, Nabokov, Narrative Voice, Patricia C. Wrede, Precision in Language, Reader Confidence, Reader Trust, Starting a Story, Vladimir Nabokov, writing, Writing Techniques
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Narrative Voice as Mind-control: Thoughts on Manipulating Reader Perception
I’ve always considered voice one of the most important tools when writing alternate history, and over the past couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about how that tool really works (both within and outside the sub-genre). There are probably as … Continue reading
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Tagged A Game of Thrones, alternate history, At the Queen's Command, Cherie Priest, Drednought, Emma Bull, Freedom and Necessity, George R.R. Martin, John Crowley, JRR Tolkien, Last and First Men, Lisa Yee, Little Big, Lolita, Lord of the Rings, Michael A. Stackpole, Millicent Min: Girl Genius, Nabokov, Olaf Stapledon, Otherland, Perspective, Point-of-View, POV, Sentence Construction, Steven Brust, Style, Tad Williams, The Phoenix Guards, Voice, Word Choice, writing
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