Top Five: Forrest Anderson
In terms of my top five list, I want to rip off some writing rules I cobbled together from a character named Carrie in Kevin Moffett’s “Further Interpretations of Real-Life Events.” I call them, “The Only Rules That Matter: Carrie’s Rules of Fiction”:
- It’s executed as vigorously as it’s conceived.
- It isn’t false or pretentious.
- It doesn’t jerk the reader around to no effect.
- It lives by its own logic.
- It’s poignant without trying too hard.
— Forrest Anderson
