Blog: Myth & Speculative Craft

How Gaiman Holds Two Worlds in One Scene: Structuring the Mundane and the Mythic in American Gods

Neil Gaiman doesn't cut between the ordinary and the supernatural, he fuses them in the same sentence, the same diner booth, the same dying Midwestern town. Here's how that technique works structurally, and what you can steal from it for your own speculative fiction.

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