Day: April 15, 2026

Fiction writing
Australian Writers’ Centre Team

Why tone – not structure – is the real secret to writing a fugal novel

By Pamela Freeman, Director of Creative Writing, Australian Writers’ Centre Most advice on fugal structure in fiction focuses on the mechanics: repeating motifs, alternating voices, mirrored patterns. But as Pamela Freeman, Director of Creative Writing at the Australian Writers’ Centre, explains, that formula misses the element that actually makes it

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