How to write fiction (and think about it). (2007)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- How to write fiction (and think about it). (2007)
- Main Title:
- How to write fiction (and think about it)
- Further Information:
- Note: Robert Graham ; guest contributors, Gareth Creer [and others].
- Authors:
- Graham, Robert, 1955-
- Other Names:
- Creer, Gareth
- Contents:
- I. How a writer works -- 1. How a writer works -- 2. Making notes -- 3. Keeping journals -- 4. How to read as a writer -- II. How to write short stories -- 5. A brief tour around the short story -- 6. The distance between : author, narrator, reader and point of view -- 7. Characters / Helen Newall -- 8. Living elsewhere : plot -- 9. Scenes -- 10. Dialogue -- 11. Setting -- 12. Epiphany -- 13. Reflection : how to think about your writing -- III. How to redraft -- 14. Redrafting 1 : editing -- 15. Page design -- 16. Peer appraisal -- 17. Writer's workshops -- 18. Redrafting 2 : revising -- IV. How to manage fictional time -- 19. Some notes on handling time in fiction / James Friel -- 20. Foreshadowing -- 21. Transitions -- 22. Crossing timelines and breaking rules / Heather Leach -- V. How to write with style -- 23. Meaning, sense and clarity -- 24. Description / Ursula Hurley -- 25. Sentences -- VI. How to broaden your canvas -- 26. Demons and angels : using a persona / Jenny Newman -- 27. Looking for the drama / Ursula Hurley -- 28. The longer story -- 29. The short story cycle -- 30. Structure -- what is it good for? / Gareth Creer -- Afterword : how to go the distance.
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke [England] New York : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2007
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages)
- Subjects:
- 808.3
Creative writing
Fiction -- Authorship
Fiction -- Authorship
Berättarteknik
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
REFERENCE / Writing Skills
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137019158
1137019158
9780230207899
0230207898 - Related ISBNs:
- 1403993149
1403993157
9781403993151
9781403993144 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-254) and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.155126
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