What's YOUR Abiding Question?
Your OWN need to know is your key to narrative depth and propulsion
The key to great writing is not knowing what you have to tell, but knowing what you’re asking.
Hello Loreates,
It’s been fun this week to watch one of my pro-democracy progress notes go a little bit viral, rising by about 100 reactions/hour, over 6.5K as I write this. One of Substack’s many mysteries is how and why this happens, but if you subscribed to MFA Lore because of that note, I welcome you!
MFA Lore is about the art and life of the writer and is not overtly political. [If you’re looking for more specifically political intel, please take a look at my other publication Authors For Democracy.] That said, all good literary writing is political, one way or another, so I hope you’ll enjoy our many conversations here about writing, publishing, and thriving as an engaged writer in the world!
And now, for this weekend’s post and prompt, which focus on another of the craft concepts that alternately galvanized and baffled my MFA students: The Abiding Qu…
