One of the things I love most about second person is that it reminds the reader that they are reading a text. It doesn't allow them to drift into the story and not notice that they are reading a book - a book that has an author.
My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me. - Rob Roberge
My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me.
- Rob Roberge
I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes. - Rob Roberge
I like a text that reminds the reader its a text sometimes.
I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people. - Rob Roberge
I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those people.
I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know the… - Rob Roberge
I think every narrator is an unreliable narrator. In its classic definition - an unreliable narrator is one who reveals something they don't know the…
It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years. - Rob Roberge
It took me seven years of writing before I published my first story. And then, the publications trickled in over the next five years.
You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yours… - Rob Roberge
You can't hide behind the guise of fiction. No matter how autobiographical a fictional scene is, you can always tell the reader - in protecting yours…
The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us… - Rob Roberge
The least trusted testimony in a court of law is eyewitness testimony. We are simply not good reporters of facts that happen to us, or in front of us…
Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader. - Rob Roberge
Some of the biggest challenges were, page after page, standing naked in front of the reader.
I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I … - Rob Roberge
I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I …
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion