Murph and Olivia Claire Friedman explore shapes that frame narratives, how trauma affects characters, methods to ground a story, and the importance of names.
Olivia is a poet, novelist, professor, and author of HERE LIES, a novel set in a near-future Louisiana where it is illegal to bury the dead.
Kurt Vonnegut's Shapes of Stories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3c1h8v2ZQ
"1922" is written by Charlie Parr and performed here by Phil Cook. The Author Shoppe does not profit from its use.