Elements of Fiction (70)
Element 70: Discovery
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4 min readJan 23, 2022
Discovery as a fictional element belongs with the writer as much as with the reader, something many writers agree with.
Flannery O’Connor for one, “If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his conscious mind can encompass and will always be a greater surprise to him than it can ever be to his reader.”