tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140630815526406811.post1256793877911394563..comments2015-08-04T11:22:09.720-05:00Comments on Reading, Writing, and Rambling: Wanted: Heart and SoulPat O'Dea Rosenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18221195882816387110noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2140630815526406811.post-28400801876356903142011-08-15T15:25:03.351-05:002011-08-15T15:25:03.351-05:00Hi, Lark,
I agree that our job is to entertain and...Hi, Lark,<br />I agree that our job is to entertain and move the reader. Not long ago, I read THE LAST WILL OF MOIRA LEAHY by Theresa Walsh, who happens to be president of the Women's Fiction chapter of Romance Writers of America. The story unfolds chiefly in the present and is told from the viewpoint of adult narrator Maeve Leahy, but the inciting incident happened years earlier. Walsh manages to give us that incident and the events leading up to it by writing chapters with datelines such as "Moira at fourteen" and showing the reader what happened as if in real time and through Moira's teenage pov. I thought the technique was genius.Pat O'Dea Rosenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18221195882816387110noreply@blogger.com