The Nighttime Novelist...accomplishes more in about 240 pages than a dozen other "how to write" or "craft your novel" books have ever done.

--Helen Gallagher/Blogcritics
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

What My iPod Teaches Us About Storytelling

I'm entirely beat, so I've enlisted the help of a guest blogger--my 30 gig classic black iPod--to do tonight's entry on storytelling and narrative arc.

30 gig classic black iPod, take it away.

[iPod churns, smokes, threatens to crash]

How many protagonists should a novel have?


[iPod says: Though you'll occasionally see novels with what seem to be more than one protagonist, by and large a novel requires one set of eyes through which the reader sees the world and understands the story.]