Take Your Characters to Dinner Creating the Illusion of Reality in Fiction (a Creative Writing Course)

Name: Take Your Characters to Dinner Creating the Illusion of Reality in Fiction (a Creative Writing Course)
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ISBN: 9780761816942

ISBN-10: 0761816941

ISBN-13: 9780761816942

Edition: 2000

Authors: Laurel A. Yourke

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List price: $50.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.17" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Preface: Fictional Reality and Feeding Your Characters


Checklist: Higher Truths of Fiction


Introduction: The Reality of Writing Fiction


Checklist: Getting Underway



Credibility: Manufacturing Reality


Checklist: Writing Fundamentals


Checklist: Conquering Block



Characterization: As Many Dimensions as Reality


Checklist: Character Revelation



Dialogue: Simulating Conversational Reality


Checklist: Conversational Sound


Checklist: Dialogue



Plot Elements: Drafting Reality



Characters in Conflict: Reality in Action


Checklist: Conflict


Checklist: Scene Component


Checklist: Plot



Point of View: Versions of Reality


Checklist: Point Of View



Setting: Scenic Reality


Checklist: Setting



Details: Just Enough Reality


Checklist: Detail



Texture: The Fabric of Reality


Checklist: Texture



Revision: A Shapelier Reality



Connections: Accessible Reality


Checklist: Fact versus Fiction



Voice: Writer versus Character Reality


Checklist: Being Yourself


Checklist: Revision


Conclusion: The Writer's Reality


Glossary


Bibliography


Index


About the Author