Archives for the ‘On Writing’ Category
Narrative Schemata in Guidebooks
By the Branta Webcrawler • Aug 24th, 2010 • Category: Essays, On Writing, TravelAs OnFiction readers will know, we have from time to time demonstrated a certain editorial affection for travelogue. Professional geographers also have a strong travelogue tradition–and a rather parallel tradition of field guides and guidebooks: stories of places visited ahead of time and reported back to travelers who might follow.
Kerstin Valentine Cadieux/OnFiction
Jonathan Franzen Criticizes Author Videos in New Author Video
By the Branta Webcrawler • Aug 16th, 2010 • Category: On Writing, VideoAuthors@Google: Alexandra Schwartz
By the Branta Webcrawler • Aug 4th, 2010 • Category: From the Interweb, On Writing, VideoThe pen and the pain
By the Branta Webcrawler • Jul 30th, 2010 • Category: Essays, From the Interweb, On WritingPicture it: Beautiful June morning, sun peaking over view of pink-pearling, aqua-swirling lake from upstairs window, the world various, beautiful, new. I head for the stairs to make coffee. I put my left foot on the top stair. Fine. I put my right foot on the penultimate stair. Not fine. No leg there. (I just knew it would happen on these stairs. Thirteen of ‘em. That’s my unlucky number.) Halfway through freefall, brain clicks into action and remembers how to turn a plunge into a tumble. Still land hard and know one thing: This is not the coffee-pot station towards which I thought I had headed. Keerist. What the hell just happened? Think. Thinka thinka thinka.
Judith Fitzgerald/Globe and Mail
