Your prompt for today is to write a story that meanders in this way, keeping the central conflict on low hum the whole time. Jane Alison and Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative UVA Creative Writing Professor Jane Alison’s latest book, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative, offers a fundamental challenge to a centuries-old narrative formula that both guides and constrains writers. Its goal is to offer new design and pattern in the narrative. And it’s a wonderful example of the power of meandering. 16.95 Meander, Spiral, Explode from creative writing professor and author Jane Alison provides ideas for alternative narrative forms. It’s funny, angry, sad, desperate, tender, real. It’s actually one looping sentence, spilling over with emotion, yet banal in its attention to, well, that pizza. Kirby, published in Wigleaf. This narrative is all over the place, yet focused like a laser at the same time. Italo Calvino says that “digression is a strategy for putting off the ending, a multiplying of time within the work, a perpetual evasion or flight.
Nine Island is an intimate nonfiction novel, told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach’s lush Venetian Islands. An extravaganza in Bemelmans inimitable vein, but written almost dead pan, with sly, amusing, sometimes biting undertones, breaking through. Reading Meander, Spiral, Explode has opened my mind to a plethora of structures. filled with clarity and wit, underlain with formidable erudition.' Read more. A meander begins at one point and moves toward a final one, but with digressive loops. Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative 'A boundlessly inventive look at narrative form. But it might be bored by classic conflict, so instead lingers by flowing along an extravagant arabesque of detours: this is what meandering narratives do. “If a narrative naturally wants to flow toward its end but doesn’t want to get there yet-the pleasure’s in the journey-it might hold back by strewing conflicts, boulders, along the way, as an adventure story might. In her excellent craft book, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative, Jane Alison says: If a narrative naturally wants to flow toward its end but doesn’t want to get there yetthe pleasure’s in the journeyit might hold back by strewing conflicts, boulders, along the way, as an adventure story might. In her excellent craft book, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative, Jane Alison says:
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