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Organized by the elements of fiction and comprised primarily of writing exercises, this text helps students hone and refine their craft with a practical, hands-on approach to writing fiction.

This text features several exercises on each particular aspect of fiction—characterization, point of view, plot, dialogue, etc. Every exercise is introduced by an opening paragraph that provides insight into and information on that element of fiction. The introduction is followed by instructions for completing the exercise, the “objective” of the exercise, and frequently by a student example. The text is concluded by an anthology of contemporary and highly teachable short fiction.

• Includes more than one hundred classroom-tested writing exercises to help students hone their writing craft.

• Each exercise is introduced by a brief but informative essay on an aspect of writing fiction.

• Organized by separate elements of fiction—characterization, dialogue, point of view, etc.—this text offers instructors flexibility and provides students with specific and focused writing practice.

• Includes an anthology of more than 20 short stories (including short-short stories) with wide-ranging style and subject.

• Features practical advice on how-to-write and how to revise fiction.

• Greater attention to revision. This edition includes a more in-depth discussion and more exercises on revision.

• New exercises. This edition will feature many new class-tested exercises that aim to improve students' writing techniques as well as spark their imaginations.

• New sections on the interior landscape of characters and the short story. Addressing new trends in the creative writing genre, the book includes entire sections devoted to these topics.

• Over 25% of the stories in the book's mini-anthology are new. Many stories have been replaced with new, highly teachable, contemporary selections to keep the text fresh and updated.

 1. Beginnings.


 2. Notebooks, Journals, and Memory.


 3. Characterization.


 4. Perspective, Distance, and Point of View.


 5. Dialogue.


 6. Interior Landscapes.


 7. Plot.


 8. The Elements of Style.


 9. A Writer's Tools.


10. Invention and Transformation.


11. Revision: Rewriting Is Writing.


12. Games.


13. Learning from the Greats.


14. Sudden, Flash, and Microfiction: The Short Story.

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©2003   |   Longman   |   On-line Supplement   |   Live
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