Guest Article over at FictionBitch

I've a guest article today over at the wonderful site FictionBitch called (What’s the Story) Fiction as Art?

Here's a small sample ...


People are usually happy with the concept of a painting telling a story that can be interrupted in a number of ways and accept that a quick glance isn’t enough – you have to stand in front of it for a while whilst you personalise the meaning. So why then do we struggle when a novel works in the same way, when the writer uses words to paint images directly into a reader’s head to tell a story in a way that needs time to sit within their mind?



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Photocredit: Brett Davis