Vivid & continuous : essays and exercises for writing fiction

Vivid & continuous : essays and exercises for writing fiction / John McNally.

The author presents a blunt, cheerful, and helpful map to learning to be a writer.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McNally, John, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Fiction > Authorship.
Authorship > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Creative writing > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Authorship
Creative writing
Fiction > Authorship
Literature
Handbooks and manuals
Literature.
Littérature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Writing
  • The Ideal Reader
  • Subject Matter
  • Beginnings
  • Titles
  • The Narrator's Likeability
  • Minor Characters
  • Immediacy
  • Pop Culture
  • Humor
  • Neighborhoods
  • The Imitative Fallacy
  • Subtext
  • Gestation
  • Humility.

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