Essential Reading

My dear friend Cheryl, who is a lovely writer, sent me a link to this article by Chip Scanlan, one of my favorite writers on writing. This terrific piece called "What Is Narrative, Anyway?" and a couple of follow-up pieces ran in Poynter Online in 2003. I never get tired of hearing people define narrative. (Short answer: Storytelling.) But the explanations he elicits from people in the field are great.

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