In fiction, a cast of characters is put to work that will cover all the bases: some will speak the author’s inclination, some the opposition \u2013 that is, some represent an idea of self, some the agonistic other; allow them all their say, and the writer moves into a dynamic. In nonfiction, the writer has only the singular self to work with. So it is the other in oneself that the writer must seek and find to create movement, achieve a dynamic. Inevitably, the piece builds only when the narrator is involved not in confession but in this kind of self-investigation, the kind that means to provide motion, purpose, and dramatic tension \u2014 Vivian Gornick, The situation and the story<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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