LEARN YOUR CRAFT. LOVE YOUR WORDS.
When a writer has trouble controlling narrative distance, many craft problems arise. But creating that distance is a subtle art, one many writers don’t even know about. Too much–or too little–narrative distance can make dialogue feel forced, confuse readers, make characters opaque, and conceal the sources of dramatic tension.
But when you fully grasp how to write “close” to your point-of-view character (in first person or third!), that’s the moment your prose will come fully alive. The story immediately becomes three-dimensional. Myriad intractable craft problems fall away immediately. It’s as close to a miracle cure as exists in the art of writing.
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Peter Mountford is the author of the novels A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism (Washington State Book Award), and The Dismal Science (NYT editor’s choice). His work has appeared in the New York Times (Modern Love), Paris Review, Southern Review, The Atlantic, The Sun, Granta, and The Missouri Review. He teaches at University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe’s MFA. His next book, a collection of stories called Detonator, will be out in late 2025.
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