Showing and Telling Learn How to Show and When to Tell for Powerful and Balanced Writing

Name: Showing and Telling Learn How to Show and When to Tell for Powerful and Balanced Writing
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ISBN: 9781582977058

ISBN-10: 1582977054

ISBN-13: 9781582977058

Edition: 2010

Authors: Laurie Alberts

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This must-have guide for writers covers 'scene' and 'summary', the two basic components of creative prose, and shows how to employ each of these essential techniques in the appropriate places within a narrative.

Book details

List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: F&W Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/5/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Laurie Alberts is the author of 6 books including 3 novels: The Price of Land in Shelby, Lost Daughters and Tempting Fate. She has won several awards, including a Jame Michener Award. She teaches in the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.



Introduction



Making Vibrant Scenes



The Purposes of Scenes



Types of Scenes



Scene Structure



Tools of the Scene Trade



The Sins of Scenes


Scene Exercises



Creating Essential Summaries



The Uses of Summary



Reflection



More Tools of the Summary Trade



The Sins of Summary


Summary Exercises



Combining Scene and Summary



Using Summary to Set Up Scenes



Inserting Summary in the Midst of Scenes



Inserting Scene in the Midst of Summary



Scene, Summary, and Pace



Following a Scene With Reflective Summary



Balancing Scene and Summary



Transitions



Beginnings and Endings


Scene and Summary Exercises


Appendix A (Story Sample): "Russia Is a Fish"


Works Cited


Index