Albert Lea

When I was nineteen, after having dropped out of high school, I did some hitchhiking with a friend of mine. We hopped a few freight trains as well.
I’m thinking of pulling a story out of this. I don’t want to write about the entire experience (Kerouac has covered this ground before), and I don’t even [...]

Recursion

Last night I finished Gardner’s The Art of Fiction.  The following passage, from the last chapter on plot, set my creative intellect aflame:
I have said that a writer may also plot a piece of fiction by working his way forward from an initial situation. Say he gets the slightly lunatic idea of a young [...]