Making Shapely Fiction Book

Norton Hardcover w/270 pages - Here is an inviting guide to the basic principles of fiction. Rather than setting up rules, the author encourages you to write more spontaneously, with emphasis on momentum, tension, and immediacy. In the first section, it forms a sequence, each shape leading to the next. Under such headings as Facade, Juggling, and Blue Moon are suggestions about dialogue and action, beginnings and endings, and fashioning strong narrative. A second section looks at the meaning of Write What You Know, and offers some Don'ts. A special feature of the book is an Alphabet for Writers. Entries range from Accuracy to Zigzag, with stops along the way for such writerly concerns as Point of View, Scene, and Style. Handy cross referencing allows the reader to turn quickly to other pertinent entries. This is a book to keep close at hand-for reference and inspiration.Read More