Fr. Harry Hagan said that narrative starts at tension and ends at resolution. Aristotle said every story has a beginning, a middle and an end. Meeting Fr. Harry’s criteria is not difficult in a single sentence. It is the middle that is the most difficult. As the atmosphere grew stale with cigarette smoke in the […]
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No work and no cry Winter’s frost . . . no soup today Workin’ means slurpin’
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It was a bright and bone-chillingly cold day until the warm soothing rain of evening began to fall.
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Until his gun was drawn, the muscles in Tex’s shooting arm twitched, sending away flies that had been drawn to his sweat.
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One of my professors in graduate school, Fr. Harry Hagan, OSB, taught me about narrative as part of a couple of courses in Old Testament poetry and history. He started by defining narrative, and providing brief examples, including some only one sentence in length. I have decided to start writing these and to see how many
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