Confining himself to fewer than 150 pages, Auster wrote a fascinating meditation on identity and fiction, structured within a very literary detective story.
I'd also been wondering about how to write fiction whose structure would lend itself to serialization on Twitter.
Explaining her rationale on the New Yorker blog, she says: "I'd been wondering about how to write fiction whose structure would lend itself to serialisation on Twitter.
To those coming to the film from the freewheeling mayhem of the director's later work, it's a remarkably disciplined feat of storytelling, featuring just as many departures from chronology as, say, "Pulp Fiction"—its structure is a nautilus-like series of boxed flashbacks, telling each character's story in turn but the flashbacks never feel like flashbacks.
Though what you are doing is non-fiction, and requires the skills of a historian, make sure to use the devices of fiction in structuring your tale.
As in her fiction, Lee structured the story around families — here the Clutters and the Deweys, there the Ewells and the Finches — but, other than that, she showed little of her particular talents in the profile, which reads like the liner notes to the album Capote eventually produced.
Fiction is structured around a single conflict or a series of escalating conflicts that the characters in the story must endure and triumph over.
Kafka's fictions are structured as dreams.
I think fiction gives a structure to the world that we don't always see in our real life".
Instead he takes its image, studies it, crops it, adds to it, deletes from it and saves a revised version as a carefully made fiction with a structure -- prosaic, omnipresent, easily verifiable -- of time-defying truth intact.
