Narrative Explorer Prints

"Wait a minute. Where am I going? I'm a writer."

The Dying Art of Storytelling

It was my story. A murder mystery. A who-done-it-and-got-away-with-it-until-he-wrote-about-it.

Tall tales and Short stories

"My narrative have so arc."

'Too many cliches? Now hold your horses!'

"Max! Oh, my God! There's like a billion moving ideas in there!"

Elevator choices: Up, Down, Different Narrative.

Writer Will Work For One Good Plot Idea

'Dad, what's a plot twist?'

"That's Eleanor. She's a fact checker."

"I do intend to seek employment, but it will be at a time and place of my own choosing."

"I've found my voice, Penny. It's deep, wise, and compassionate."

"It's a narrative I didn't intend."

History Department: 'I used to be a revisionist myself, you know!'

'I can't believe this. . . 'There was a young man from Nantucket...'

Man commiting suicide finds the treasure at the bottom of the sea.

'Does this book come with director commentary.'

N. Karamzin

Inspiration

Laurence Sterne

'Think I'll wait for the novelisation.'

Engraving on tomb of the unknown writer - The END.

Reading room

Man writing at laptop says: 'It's a UK road movie ??" to give it more scale, I'm making the characters three inches tall.'

"Arthur and I both like books with unreliable narrators. The problem is that he only reads nonfiction."

'It's my suicide note. Chapter 147.'

"I'm after the history section."

Getting Published

"What do you suppose Ken Burns will have to say about all this in 30 years?"

Julian Barnes

"Sign it 'to Arthur' and write a brief alternative ending."

Aravind Adiga

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

"It's a coming-of-middle-age story."