Learn how Maggie O'Farrell gets maximum value from historical details in her novel The Marriage Portrait.

Learn how to use focalization to show the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters in a single scene with examples from Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait.

Is there a place for omniscient narration, associated closely with nineteenth-century novels, in a twenty-first-century literary landscape dominated by limited narration?

Learn the techniques Lauren Groff uses to introduce readers to a distant historical setting in Matrix.

Learn about three key sources that will help you decide whether a term would be used in your fictional character’s period.