| Description |
250 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Sources of Fiction: Where and How to Find Material -- 2. Setting: Evoking a Vivid Sense of Place and Time -- 3. Character: Inventing Fictional People -- 4. Plot: Strategies of Organization and Structure -- 5. Point of View: Selecting the Best Viewpoint -- 6. Dialogue and Scene: Handling Dramatic Action -- 7. Beginnings and Endings: Options and Techniques for Opening and Closing -- 8. Description and Word Choice: Choosing Effective Details, Matters of Style -- 9. Voice: Finding the Narrative Voice, Creating the Voices of Characters -- 10. Revision: Transforming the First Draft into Finished, Polished Fiction |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Fiction -- Authorship.
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Fiction -- Technique -- Problems, exercises, etc.
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Fiction -- Technique.
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| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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| LC no. |
94048107 |
| ISBN |
1884910033 (alk. paper) |
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1884910394 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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