The Art of Writing Fiction
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4082-4834-8 (ISBN)
Andrew Cowan provides an insightful introduction that brings his own well-crafted prose style to bear on the processes and pleasures of writing fiction, offering practical and personal advice culled from his own experience and that of other published writers. He lays open to the reader his own notes, his writing, and the experiences from his own life that he has drawn on in his fiction allowing the reader to develop their own writing project alongside the author as they go through the book.
Andrew Cowan is the Director of the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of four novels, including pig (1994), which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Sunday Times Young Writier of the Year Award.
CONTENTS
and exercises
1
WRITERS ROUTINES
1. When where what...
2. Timewasting
3. Friends and foes
4. What where when
2
WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU KNOW: OBSERVATIONAL JOURNALS
5. Keeping an observational journal
6. Keeping a scrapbook
7. Weather report
8. Street life
9. Workplace
10. Home life
3
WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU DONT KNOW YOU KNOW: AUTOMATIC WRITING
11. First thoughts
12. First things
13. First thoughts, second thoughts
14. First drafts
4
DONT TELL ME
15. Telling it slant
16. Dont mention it
17. How does this feel?
18. Sightless
19. Hyacinths
20. Summary and scene
5
WRITE ABOUT WHAT YOU USED TO KNOW: REMEMBERING AND PLACE
21. Lost things
22. Lost lands
23. Lost selves
24. Lost loves
25. Lost
26. Departures
27. Typical
28. Untypical
29. A place
30. A person
6
WRITE ABOUT WHO YOU KNOW: CHARACTER
31. A Portrait of Yourself As You Are Now
32. Twenty questions
33. Q&A gimmick
34. Notes towards a character
35. Envelopes
36. Still life
37. Two characters
7
VOICES
38. Oral history
39. Conversation
40. Formatting dialogue
41. Dramatic twist
42. Cross purposes
43. Vernacular voices
44. In summary
8
VIEWPOINTS
45. Something is happening out there
46. Something else is happening
47. Captors and captives
48. Eye witness
49. You
50. You, too
51. Third, and finally
9
MIDDLES, ENDS, BEGINNINGS: STRUCTURE
52. Story vs plot
53. Diagnostics
54. Beginning middle end
55. Middle beginning end
56. End middle beginning
57. Sub-plotting
58. Shuffling
59. Re-arranging
10
MAKING STRANGE: DEFAMILIARISATION
60. Literally
61. Figuratively
62. Given words
63. Given moods
64. Exercises in style
65. Mathewss algorithm (almost)
66. Horizontal
67. Vertical
11
MAKING CLEAR: REVISION, GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION
68. More first thoughts
69. Checklist
70. Next thoughts
71. Simple
72. Compound
73. Complex
74. Compound-Complex
12
WORKSHOPPING
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.5.2011 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 234 x 181 mm |
| Gewicht | 376 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4082-4834-4 / 1408248344 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4082-4834-8 / 9781408248348 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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