Small things like these book review5/20/2023 And that his going to work and coming home were full of tension and loss because of what was not happening. I didn’t really know what I was doing in that lesson or where it would lead, but, when I got to the documentary and his sadness, I realized that I was describing this man’s wedding day-the day he was supposed to be married. One of my students asked if I could come up with an example of a tense story with little or no drama. I invented the story of a clerk who goes to the office, leaves after nothing much has happened, then takes the bus back home to an empty house, where he can’t find the cat, then finds the cat and eats a frozen meal, then watches a documentary about Lady Diana getting married and cries silently while watching. Well, it’s an odd one, this. The story came to me while I was discussing the differences between drama and tension (which are sometimes near-opposites to me) in a fiction-writing workshop. Did you have this structure in mind when you started writing? Your story “ So Late in the Day” unfolds like a mystery, beginning on what seems to be a normal workday for its main character, Cathal, but turns out to be something quite different.
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