Suspend Your Disbelief
Whenever my husband and I watch movies with a plot relating to a commercial airplane – Sully and Air Force One are favourites – he can’t help whispering in my ear during the movie: “They can’t do that in real life.” Commercial pilots will be the first to tell you...
Book Review: De Telegraaf, Monday 2 May 2022
Intrigue Around An Ancient Map Book: ‘De Graveur’. What: historical thriller. Who: Lisa Medved. Publisher: Horizon. This is a thriller with two stories set in different time periods. One takes place in Antwerp and London from 1621: the year in which the Twelve...
Narrative Distance
The first time I learned about narrative distance – also called psychic distance – I was attending a writers’ workshop in York. It was a light-bulb moment for me. Workshop teacher, author and freelance editor, Debi Alper, described narrative distance as the space...