narrative – Mindy Quigley

Underneath it all

I’ve been tinkering with a new story lately and I was reminded of a phrase that’s always driven me batty: s/he is “a good person underneath it all.” The story I’m writing is written from first person point of view, a perspective I haven’t used in awhile. Being inside your character’s head can allow aContinue reading “Underneath it all”

Competing Narratives

Yesterday, when a journalist described the “competing narratives” surrounding President Trump’s now-infamous July phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, I was struck for the first time by the word narrative. As a fiction writer, the idea of narrative obviously isn’t new to me, but that news report suddenly made me think of the foundational importanceContinue reading “Competing Narratives”