Tag: solitude
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It’s Personal: Some Provisional Insight into Creating Fictional Characters through Research
My character Tim is lonely like I imagine my old friend was lonely all those months he spent working for a lumber company, getting on planes and flying across the country.
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Scale
Every few minutes or so, another car passed. More trucks than cars, actually; I’d left town behind and ventured into farm country, where plowed fields like the one captured in this post’s featured image dominate.
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Nature; Leading Lines
You can return to places you’ve been before, sometimes the very next day, and encounter an entirely different scene, another world.
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Homesick
I did time in Norwich. East Anglia. England. My room had a closet for clothes and another closet for the bathroom. The city was ten minutes away from campus by bus, twenty if I ran it. And I did run, most days. I was there taking classes, and after my modernist fiction seminar, my interwar…
Patrick Faller 