Deepening Fiction: A Practical Guide for Intermediate and Advanced Writers, 1st edition
Published by Pearson (October 5, 2004) © 2005
- Sarah Stone
- Ron Nyren
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This intermediate/advanced guide to writing fiction emphasizes the revision process and uses craft discussions, exercises, and diverse examples to show the artistic implications of writing choices.
This book addresses the major elements of fiction. Numerous examples, questions, and exercises throughout the book help students reflect upon and explore writing possibilities. The mini-anthology includes a variety of highly teachable, illustrative, and diverse stories–North American and international, contemporary and classic, realistic and experimental.
- Ten self-contained, flexible chapters cover intermediate/advanced approaches to character, point of view, story structure, handling time in fiction, subject matter, setting and detail, research and societal context, style and dialogue, and revision.
- Intermediate/advanced exercises, both individual and group, invite students to work with their previous writing and generate ideas in relation to each chapter's topic.
- Twenty-two classic and contemporary stories, both realistic and experimental, provide first-rate examples along with story analyses and discussion questions in the chapters. For flexibility and easy reference, the stories are clustered in the mini-anthology.
- In addition to the dedicated revision chapter, each chapter addresses revision in relation to a specific craft topic, including examples of the revision process from well-known writers, some of them discussing their anthology stories.
- Demystifies the writing process via quotations from writers, author biographies, story discussions, and a section on the writing process and the writing life all of which emphasize the connections between the act of writing and the story itself.
- Part III, The Writing Process and the Writing Life includes discussions of writer's block, talent and habit, and rejection, publication, and endurance to help writers understand issues key to developing sustainable lives as writers.
- An extensive writer's glossary defines terms and key literary movements.
Preface.
I. Intermediate and Advanced Approaches to Fiction-Writing.
II. Mini-Anthology of Stories.
III. THE WRITING PROCESS AND THE WRITING LIFE.
APPENDICES.
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