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Ekphrasis: Harnessing the Power of Visual Art

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By Larissa Pham 
| Poets & Writers Magazine
In our Craft Capsules series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 271. Every creative medium—music, theater, visual art, poetry—has its unique power. A symphony does something that a painting can’t, and vice versa. But what if we could combine the power of these mediums by bringing one into the other? Enter ekphrasis, or the vivid description, via writing, of visual art.
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Thought, Speech: Dialogue Without Quotation Marks

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By Larissa Pham 
| Poets & Writers Magazine
In our Craft Capsules series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 270. In my second semester of graduate school, I stopped setting my dialogue in quotation marks. At the time, I was working on a historical novel, set in Vietnam, and I was struggling with the voices of my characters—they felt too stagey, too dramatized.
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Overheard: Writing Third Person Through First Person

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By Larissa Pham 
| Poets & Writers Magazine
In our Craft Capsules series, authors reveal the personal and particular ways they approach the art of writing. This is no. 269. I remember exactly where I was when I learned you could write third person and first person at the same time: on a Metro-North train, reading James Salter’s A Sport and a Pastime (Doubleday, 1967) on a friend’s recommendation. I was just about to graduate college, and I was always, endlessly, on the train between Connecticut and New York.
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