Yes, your character is a mouse, but sometimes you have to call a streetlight a streetlight so the flow of the story isn’t impeded by abstractions. So I guess my advice to other writers would be to be deliberate and precise in your word choice. A mouse wouldn’t know the name for a streetlight or a prison, but I found when I leaned too hard into (my best guess of) a mouse’s perspective that the prose was too confusing to be enjoyable. There is a fine line between the story being believable and being readable. Tiffany: I struggled with this quite a bit. What advice would you give to writers trying to do the same? LSQ: Writing from the point of a view of a non-human character can be difficult, but youdo it extremely well. Today on the table we have Tiffany Meuret and her story “ Mouse, Crow, Cockroach, Valkyrie.” Here at Luna Station, we like to pick our most recent issue authors’ brains about their masterful stories.
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