Unlocking the Secrets of Masterful Storytelling: A Deep Dive into ‘The Lab’ by Davison and LaPlante
When I described the great-grandmother project to writer friends, three agreed: historical fiction. Another encouraged something about the process of uncovering my great-grandmother’s life, so narrative non-fiction? Memoir? A final suggestion was, “maybe poetry?”
What makes a poem a poem? Can I interject poetic methods and elements into this…thing I’m writing? This experiment? What is the line between fact and made-up things? How can we traverse it? Should we traverse it?
Within The Lab, Davison and LaPlante refer to writing exercises as ‘experiments.’
