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When You Don't Know Where to Begin, Begin by Hand

When You Don't Know Where to Begin, Begin by Hand

An Uncomfortable Genre

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Ariel Gore
Aug 16, 2025
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I've written in a bunch of genres. Give me noir and memoir, magical realism and science journalism and graphic auto fiction. No genre scares me. I like to try them all! But I’m very uncomfortable writing fiction in the third person. It boggles my mind, sometimes, when I think about it. Where would I begin?

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