Is Fiction Going to the Dogs?

After my Dad read The Lovely Bones, the part he raved about the most was a scene in which the protagonist, a dead girl, meets her former dog in heaven. Giving character to a pet in fiction can engage readers just like my Dad, so Brenda Scott Royce at Absolute Write investigates some ways to writing good fiction involving animals.

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