“For a century or longer, the novel has been blamed, in repeated spasms of correction, for ossified convention: for the paraphernalia of plot, the rigid doxology of “conflict,” development, epiphany, scene-setting, dialogue, and so on, and for the fraudulent transparency of realism. I call this liturgy of conventional ways of writing, “novelism.”” (James Wood, How Fiction Works)
If you would like to learn more about the craft behind storytelling, my articles on Ramos On Craft go deeper every Tuesday and Thursday. Subscribe here
Rolando Andrés Ramos 
Leave a comment