Vertical and Horizontal Writing--What They Are, How to Write Them, and Why Each Brings Interest to Your Story
The short-story writer, André Dubus, described writing as having vertical and horizontal moments. In an interview for the anthology, Novel Voices, he spoke of the challenges in his first novel, The Lieutenant: “I’m not sure I knew how to bear down then. . . . I was writing what I call horizontally, making scenes go. In my forties, I switched to writing…