Writing

A Teddy Obsession (A Sort of Gerwig’s Little Women Review)

When I finally got around to reading Little Women in college, it immediately became one of my favourite stories. Jo and Meg charmed me (admittedly, I found Amy annoying on my first read), and I saw a lot of myself in Beth, too. What opened made the story so accessible to me was Laurie though.… Continue reading A Teddy Obsession (A Sort of Gerwig’s Little Women Review)

Writing

Three (Friendly) Complaints from a Fiction Writer to Readers

tl;dr version: fiction and non-fiction are two separate things. I think often of this line attribute to Mark Twain: The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible. An alternate version that I have seen is, "Truth is stranger than fiction and why shouldn't it be, fiction has to make… Continue reading Three (Friendly) Complaints from a Fiction Writer to Readers