Barbara G. TuckerJul 265 minWhat does Dickens teach the fiction writer in 2020?What does a best-seller from the mid-1800s have to say to us today? Pretty much everything. 1. Detail. Fiction writers closely observe hu...
Barbara G. TuckerJun 24 minLessons from Jane, Part IIWhen one reads Austen—and I should say Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes—one gets a straightforward narrative. The first chapter of David C...
Barbara G. TuckerMay 316 minWhat Jane Austen Can Teach Writers TodayLast night I finished the last of the six novels Jane Austen wrote fully; I don’t count Sanditon, because someone else finished it, or th...
Barbara G. TuckerMay 94 minLetter to a Fellow WriterThe following is an excerpt from some correspondence I had with a new writer I'm helping. She had written about how her writers' critique...
Barbara G. TuckerApr 263 minAn Honest Book ReviewThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz We have a cart on the second floor of our building where professors put out books they...
Barbara G. TuckerApr 109 minIMMUNITYI offer this somewhat dystopian short story. It is copyrighted by Barbara Graham Tucker, 2020.
Barbara G. TuckerApr 65 minHow will COVID-19 change our writing and reading culture?On Monday I went to my first, and I hope only, funeral in the time of coronavirus. The service was for the father of a woman in my church...
Barbara G. TuckerApr 33 minWriting in the Time of CoronavirusI can only finish with the promise that Someone is bigger than COVID-19...
Barbara G. TuckerMar 263 minSecular writing, “Christian writing,” and in betweenCan a Christian write R-rated material?
Barbara G. TuckerJan 294 minWhy I Write: A ManifestoI wrote this post to express myself, but it is really a call to everyone else who aspires to write, and hopefully, write well, to pen (or...