Brighton Interactive Fiction Lab is starting. The first session is this Thursday, 18 June, 3–4 pm, Roof Room, Brighthelm Centre.
The topic is time and space in fiction: why some novels make you feel genuinely lost, and why that sometimes works better than knowing exactly where you are.
We’ll look at three structural tools: chronology as a contract between writer and reader, Bakhtin’s chronotope, and what David Herman calls fuzzy temporality. We’ll work through examples from Faulkner, Morrison, Woolf, and Kafka. And I’ll talk about how these things showed up in Northern Rift and Blank Spots, mostly by accident.
There’s a writing exercise: to write a scene where one coordinate is missing. Then we share what we wrote and talk about what the absence does.
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Daria Ryzhikova Writer