A couple of ideas I’ve been mulling over recently, though, are (1) that any narrative (or any piece of writing at all, really) will either adopt the sentence or the paragraph as its smallest unit of complete meaning, stacking one on top of the other to make the steps by which it moves forward, and it can be useful to determine which sort of narratives you’re most comfortable with or skilled at producing, and (2) that every writer of worth places his concern in at least one of these three things: in fidelity to the language, fidelity to his own obsessions, or fidelity to the human experience. The advice I offer usually arises naturally-or at least I hope it does-from the stories we’re discussing in any given class. What advice do you offer to beginning writers? You’ve taught writing in many venues, including the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Interview with Kevin Brockmeier (Mollie Savage for Toasted Cheese)
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