Creating fiction Instruction and insights from teachers of Associated Writing Programs
Book - 1999
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Cincinnati, Ohio :
Story Press Books
1999.
- Language
- English
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- Physical Description
- 294 pages
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9781884910401
- Introduction
- I.. Thinking About Fiction
- Going to See the Elephant: Our Duty as Storytellers
- The Trigger: What Gives Rise to a Story?
- Other Bodies, Ourselves: The Mask of Fiction
- Creative Adventures: The Fiction Writer's Apprenticeship
- II.. Characterization
- Icebergs, Glaciers, and Arctic Dreams: Developing Characters
- Extras, Chorus, Supernumeraries, and Walk-Ons: Bringing Minor Characters to Life
- Location, Location, Location: Depicting Character Through Place
- Sympathy for the Devil: What to Do About Difficult Characters
- III.. Point of View
- Casting Shadows, Hearing Voices: The Basics of Point of View
- A Container of Multitudes, Or When "I" Isn't "Me": The Art of First Person
- And Eyes to See: The Art of Third Person
- IV.. Plot, Structure, and Narrative
- Incremental Perturbation: How to Know Whether You've Got a Plot or Not
- Time and Order: The Art of Sequencing
- An Architecture of Light: Structuring the Novel and Story Collection
- The Lingerie Theory of Literature: Describing and Withholding, Beginning and Ending
- V.. Style and Voice
- You're Really Something: Inflection, Tone, and Pitch
- A Mystified Notion: Some Notes on Voice
- Minimalism and Maximalism: A Question of Style
- The Conjurer's Art: The Rules of Magical Realism and How to Break Them
- The Comic Point of View: Putting Humor in Your Fiction
- VI.. Revising, Editing, and Marketing
- What Stories Teach Their Writers: The Purpose and Practice of Revision
- Eleven Style Considerations You Can't Live Without: Editing and Polishing
- On Sending Out and Getting Back: Publishing Fiction
- Forty Additional Writing Exercises