Fiction Writers HdbkThis book offers practical advice on every aspect of writing novels and short stories: plotting and narrative development, characterization and dialogue, sources of material, planning an opening, roughing out chapters, using suspense and emotional color, rewriting and highlighting and much more. Examples drawn from the works of outstanding writers, past and present, illustrate each point, making this the perfect handbook for professional writers and students. |
Contents
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Plotting and Narrative Development | 33 |
Character and Dialogue | 47 |
The Manner of the Telling | 59 |
The Usable Past | 69 |
Reading | 78 |
Notebooks and Diaries | 85 |
Some Introductory Material | 95 |
Point of View | 120 |
The Ending | 128 |
Clues Logic Relationships | 149 |
Blocks Drive | 155 |
The Science Fiction Novel | 162 |
ON BECOMING A PROFESSIONAL WRITER | 173 |
A Salute to Whit Burnett by J D Salinger | 187 |
The Subject of Your Story | 114 |
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