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Adele Annesi: Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 7:27 AM
Award-winning Italian novelist Elsa Morante captures the events of an era in a journal style that grounds her seminal work of long fiction, History. The novel opens with a kind of year in review and an ominous citation that the atomic century has begun. In each of the dozen or so entries that set the stage for the novel, the focal point is the war that is coming to every part of the world, and will continue to come like a great tide that ebbs and flows but never ceases.
Morante's persistent selection of global events provides an invasive backdrop for the novel.
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Adele Annesi: Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 9:03 AM
 Ever wonder how to know and grow your characters without adding length to your work or tons of time to your schedule? Use a screenwriting technique — try writing off-screen scenes for your characters. While evaluating an early draft of a novel, I found a primary character — the main character's fiancé — lacking definition. Sometimes he was weak, other times overbearing. But the story was solid, as were the other characters. In working with the writer, I briefly considered adding the love interest's point of view, but that would have diluted the thrust of the story — the father-daughter relationship, which was being told through the use of a dual perspective. |
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