The Writing Rookie #12: Realism and Artistic Convention

Here's a somewhat belated addition to my series based on insights from writing my first novel, No Going Back. For the complete list of columns in this series, click here.

Cross-posted from A Motley Vision website.

If art is, in part at least, the imitation of reality, it's an imitation that's largely bounded by and grounded in artistic convention. That's something I've long been aware of from a literary/critical perspective, but writing a novel myself — and then seeing the reaction of...