The stuff of fiction : advice on craft /
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| Author / Creator: | Bauer, Douglas. |
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| Edition: | Rev. & enl. ed. |
| Imprint: | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006. |
| Description: | x, 189 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Fiction -- Authorship. Fiction -- Authorship. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6159043 |
Table of Contents:
- Openings : ways of starting the story
- Exercise : and so we begin
- Sentences : doing the dusty work
- Exercise : how sentences work
- Dialogue : the reader as eavesdropper
- Exercise : think of your ears as magnets
- Putting it in context : foreground needs background
- Exercise : but why did the queen die?
- Implicit narrative : achieving subtlety while avoiding confusion
- Exercise : presence and absence
- Characters : flawed heroes and sympathetic villains
- Exercise : making heroes flawed
- High events : the treatment of dramatic moments
- Exercise : the richness of the resonance
- Sentiment versus sentimentality
- The first, always; the second, never
- Exercise : no cheating allowed
- Closings : ways of ending the story
- Exercise : finally.
