Most people will champion Woolf because she wrote in a catastrophic era when consciousness was a trend and that she precedes both Murdoch and Munro.īut I want to use my hero Iris Murdoch in A Fairly Honourable Defeat to show how you can enter the consciousness-or to put it more technically, enter third person and shift into first person: The best authors in this practice are Iris Murdoch, Virginia Woolf, and Alice Munro, who won this year’s Nobel Prize in short fiction. Go ahead and try reading 1 and then 5, you will feel jarred compared to reading 3, 4, and then 5.
The mistake authors make however is that you can’t get to level five without going through one or at least two. Under your collar, down inside your shoes, freezing, and plugging up your miserable soul.Īlready you can see a difference in the sentence although they say pretty much say the same thing. God how he hated these damn snowstorms.
Warburton had never much cared for snowstorms. John Gardner in The Art of Fiction explains it best in his example:
