The Art of Writing Fiction
Andrew Cowan
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
The Art of Writing Fiction
Andrew Cowan
About This Book
The Art of Writing Fiction guides the reader through the processes of creative writing from journal-keeping to editing, offering techniques for stimulating creativity and making language vivid. Readers will master key aspects of fiction such as structure, character, voice and setting.
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.
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The Art of Writing Fiction
Contents and exercises
- Publisher's acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Writers' routines
- 1. When where whatâŠ
- 2. Timewasting
- 3. Friends and foes
- 4. What where when âŠ
- 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 don't know you know: automatic writing
- 11. First thoughts
- 12. First things
- 13. First thoughts, second thoughts
- 14. First drafts
- 4 Don't tell me âŠ
- 15. Telling it slant
- 16. Don't 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. âLostâ
- 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 s...