Tag: nonfiction

  • 84 Days: Poetry

    84 Days: Poetry

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    Erik Moe
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    I thought of my posts on truth and fiction last week initially as organized in a straight line, a spectrum from false to true. But as I went along, it turned out that each has some element of its opposite.  Lies and fiction must be grounded in some believable truth, must be anchored to reality…

  • 87 Days: Nonfiction

    87 Days: Nonfiction

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    Erik Moe
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    This week, I’ve been working my way from fiction to fact in this exploration of how a writer should write in the 100 days leading up to the 2020 election. Having covered fictional, false and dishonest writing, today we cross safely in to the true end of the spectrum, or at least the end that…

  • 91 Days: Fiction

    91 Days: Fiction

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    Erik Moe
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    I’ve spent much of the past few years working on fiction: a novel and short stories. Would I be better off spending these hundred days staying in that mode? Would a serialized novel of life in a dystopian 18th year of Trump’s regime be more effective than whatever this series turns out to be? In…