Meaning in fiction is often conceived as an element of writing that may or may not be inserted into a story, like a plastic baby doll in a Mardi Gras king cake.  But meaning, its presence or lack of, is ubiquitous in a literary story, like the taste...

Literary fiction is critically dependent on the appropriate use of the imagination. Yet much of contemporary fiction seems void of imaginative input, either because the author lacks imagination or, and more likely, does not use imagination...

Story in fiction is special.  For the right story—one that is remembered and passed onto future generations—fiction is the best, and most uniquely imaginative, way to deliver a story.  But few contemporary writers write fiction created in the...

These are tough times for literature. Fewer humans read for pleasure, publishers seek a true story usually with salacious innards, and writers have lost the art of entertaining through a prose fictional story. Literary writers shun the advantages...

Students are not experts in how to write literary fictional stories, yet student critiques are, to different degrees, a major part of almost all creative-writing workshop experiences.    In these workshops, students are given the opportunity to act...