The Kabbalah of Writing: Mystical Practices for Inspiration and Creativity by Sherri Mandell

Author:Sherri Mandell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality/Kabbalah
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2022-11-22T00:00:00+00:00

Focusing on Narrative Structure

Every plot structure requires shaping our text in order to achieve a narrative design. While these designs are more commonly associated with fiction, studying different narrative structures can help essayists think about the most effective ways to order and arrange events in our writing.

The most obvious narrative structure is chronological. It’s the way we live, after all. But that doesn’t mean that you always have to start in the beginning and close at the end. Memoir and story are not autobiography. In other words, you don’t just record what happened to you, day after day, year after year. (Although writer Joe Gould did just that.) As Sven Birkerts remarks in The Art of Time in Memoir, there is no better way to smother a memoir than to rely on chronology:

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