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The Non-Centrality of the Character
An essay on why vivid prose centers action rather than characters, showing how pronouns can conceal weak sentences and stall narrative momentum.
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An essay on why vivid prose centers action rather than characters, showing how pronouns can conceal weak sentences and stall narrative momentum.
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“You missed her— the coy smile when she completed the most brilliant creation and quietly sat expecting and getting nothing, you missed her.”

“This room represents a lifetime. My lifetime. And at the same time infinite lifetimes.”

“I was the one who had to lean into my morals and away from the notion that I was bound by blood.”

A peculiar man he brushed his teeth before and after each meal and slept on clean bed sheets each night, a full set (including pillow covers) for each day of…

“I don’t know myself at all; an organism subordinate to itself.” – Self Portrait

“Speak in sighs, soft petals written beneath our skin, my darling—if you look at it the right way, all the world is a garden.”

The last time Evelyn laid eyes on him, he was sucking his thumb furiously, his blanket tangled around his little body, sweat making his soft blonde hair curl. Dozing in…