About Based on a Creative Writing MFA thesis supervised by Taylor Polites at Wilkes University, Tony Kapolka's narrative quiz is built on the belief that specific narrative styles best support certain features in a story.

By asking simple questions, we map a story into Franz Stanzel's Narrative Typology.
This suggests the best type of narration to use.

As we collect data on published books, we'll eventually be able to make reading recommendations - examples of novels that are similar to the one you describe in the quiz. To this end - please take the quiz for your favorite books, and let us know if the results resonate with the author's choices.



Developing the Quiz
Talk         Revitalizing Franz Stanzel's Narratology for Craft Prescription, Tony Kapolka,
2018 International Conference on Narrative, April 18-22, Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
An introduction to the theory and inner-workings of the quiz.