Listen "Be Specific – Short Stories"
Episode Synopsis
How to make your fiction come alive with detail. Today we're exploring one of the most important lessons in writing excellent fiction – banishing generality and embracing the particular. We'll hear excerpts from Margaret Atwood and Natalie Goldberg to aid us in exploring how to make our writing better by being specific. Our example short story is "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates. . . . Find Morgan's Poetry Masterclass on how to get published here: https://poetry-masterclass.thinkific.com/courses/poetry-masterclass Find Morgan's poetry chapbook, Barefoot and Running, here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/barefoot-and-running-morgan-liphart/1138411141?ean=9781735957906
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