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Learning to Write Fiction from the Masters

Autor Barnaby Conrad
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 1996
Employing extracts from the works of the "masters", Conrad, the director of the famed Santa Barbara Writer's Conference, shows aspiring writers how to handle the basic elements of fiction--beginnings, settings, character, suspense, dialogue, endings, and others. Invaluable for its technical guidance and immense readability, this is a masterful tool for literary success.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780452276574
ISBN-10: 0452276578
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Plume Books

Cuprins

Preface
Chapter 1. Beginnings
Chapter 2. Settings
Chapter 3. Characterization
Chapter 4. Individualizing
Chapter 5. Dialogue
Chapter 6. Romantic Encounters
Chapter 7. Action
Chapter 8. Endings
Chapter 9. Titles
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index of Authors and Titles Quoted
Index of Individuals and Titles Cited

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Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Willa Cather, Jack London, Dorothy Parker, John O'Hara, Elmore Leonard, and a host of other greats past and present have much to show you about how to begin and end a story, structure a plot, create memorable characters, write dialogue, depict settings and action, heighten romance, choose winning titles, and meet all the other challenges of the art of fiction. Barnaby Conrad, a bestselling author as well as one of America's premier creative writing teachers, has selected key examples from the best of the best to reveal the essential tools of storytelling and demonstrate their use. His book offers fresh inspiration and guidance for all writers of fiction. It is also a joy to read.

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