The Writer’s Interface is story technique. How does writing technique enhance story development?

We analyze Cold Mountain because it is maybe our best example of a modern attempt to produce a truly literary novel. It deserves to be analyzed. Apparently its author, Charles Frasier, took many years to write Cold Mountain. This says he must have re-written it many times to produce its dense texture.

Let’s see what he has done.

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Tags: story technique, special vocabulary, historical novel, story development

A Craft Review is an analysis of a novel with focus on how the writer wrote the book using writing craft tools.

You benefit as a writer because you see how writing craft is used successfully.

As a beginning or advanced writer you may still be caught psychologically, as I used to be, in the story itself.

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Tags: craft review, writing craft tools, writer, story, writing craft