What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers

Name: What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers
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ISBN: 9780321107176

ISBN-10: 0321107179

ISBN-13: 9780321107176

Edition: 2nd 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Anne Bernays, Pamela Painter

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Description:

This how-to-write fiction book is comprised primarily of exercises introduced by brief but informative essays on the aspects of fiction. Long on specifics and short on theoretical information so often found in books about the art of writing, this text provides a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction. Organized by the elements of fiction and concluded by an anthology of contemporary fiction, this book helps all fiction writers hone and improve their craft. The elements of fictioncharacter, point of view, dialogue, plot, style and revision. For those interested in improving fiction-writing skills.

Book details

List price: $56.80
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Longman Publishing
Publication date: 11/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English




Beginnings



Notebooks, Journals, and Memory



Characterization



Perspective, Distance, and Point of View



Dialogue



Interior Landscapes



Plot



The Elements of Style



A Writer's Tools



Invention and Transformation



Revision: Rewriting Is Writing



Games



Learning from the Greats



Sudden, Flash, and Microfiction: The Short Story


20/20



Excuses I Have Already Used



Mackerel Night



The Custodian



Girl



Confirmation Names



It Would've Been Hot



My Mother's Gifts



The New Year



Wants



No One's a Mystery



Vision out of the Corner of One Eye




A Collection of Short Fiction


Happy Endings



Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drugs N Goods



Gryphon



Some of Our Work with Monsters



Cathedral



Sister



White Angel



How to Talk to a Hunter



Live Life King Sized



The Niece



Shiloh



Sheep



Five Points



A Good Man Is Hard to Find



Wolinsky's Resort



The Appaloosa House



Under the Roof