The Writing Experiment by Hazel Smith

exercises Rewrite the same passage in a number of different ways using various types of narrators who are both inside and outsi ...

narrative into its constitutive parts. Narratology takes some of the mys- tique out of storytelling, emphasises the construction ...

complemented with Mark Currie’s Postmodern Narrative Theory (1998), which gives an account of more recent developments in narrat ...

blunt style, annoyed the suits and ties who wanted to think of the gallery simply as a company with shareholders. There was also ...

they couldn’t agree amongst themselves. And quite frankly they didn’t like being bossed around by a woman. But don’t start assum ...

was actually loaded against me. My desire to move it in a more progressive direction, and to include much more contemporary art, ...

we are likely to sympathise heavily with Sophie’s position. At issue here is also the reliability of the narrator. On the whole ...

at running the gallery and thought that nobody could touch you at it. You wondered whether your bluntness sometimes caused offen ...

confidence shattered—she tries to come to terms with herself in the mirror, and her difficulties are reflected in a destabilised ...

author Sabrina Achilles (1995), where transformation into the third person sometimes subverts the continuous flow of the first p ...

It was difficult to say. He looked through her as if he didn’t know her, but his unawareness seemed rather studied, which made h ...

ways of projecting a point of view: one in which a third person narrator tells us what a particular character is thinking and fe ...

A point of view usually consists of three components: sensing (how an object/event/person looks, sounds, feels, smells) feeling ...

see here how, although the expression ‘point of view’ deceptively suggests singularity, any focalisation is itself comprised of ...

this as a means to explore different forms of subjectivity and divergent cul- tural viewpoints. For this exercise the incident s ...

Let’s look at this diagrammatically. I’m using a diagram with two points of view here, but it’s probably most stimulating if you ...

maintain the narrator’s way of speaking and vocabulary while still pro- jecting those of the child. Alternatively, you can struc ...

must get all the guys you’re really pretty (George sweats and, thankfully, doesn’t speak his thoughts aloud.) The man smiles at ...

why must you thrust your varicose tongue down my throat when it’s all in vein. all feigned. Jeanette sweats and, unfortunately, ...

Stephen Hawking calls ‘the arrow of time’ (Hawking 1988). If you look closely at how any narrative is structured, it’s very diff ...