Writing Short Stories
Höfundar:
Courttia Newland; Tania Hershman (Útgáfa: 1)
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Writing Short Stories: A Writers' and Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing short fiction successfully. PART 1 explores the nature and history of the form, personal reflections by the editors, and help getting started with ideas, planning and research. PART 2 includes tips by leading short story writers, including: Alison Moore, Jane Rogers, Edith Pearlman, David Vann, Anthony Doerr, Vanessa Gebbie, Alexander MacLeod, Adam Thorpe and Elspeth Sandys.
PART 3 contains practical advice - from shaping plots and exploring your characters to beating writers' block, rewriting and publishing your stories.
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- Bloomsbury UK
- 9781474257299
- 9781408130803
- ePub
- 1
- Courttia Newland; Tania Hershman
- English
- 2015-04-23
- 100
- 10
- 10
Kaflar
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part 1
- The history of the short story
- Crime, tricks and tales: genre and the short story
- The shorter end of short stories – boundaries with poetry
- Stories: those little slices of life
- Reflections on writing and on books on writing
- Reflections on the what, when, how, why and where of it for me
- Reflections on the evolution of a short story
- The evolution of a short story: ‘Under the Tree’
- Reflections: permission and risk
- Part 2
- On being brief
- Whose epiphany?
- On generosity
- Voice
- On short story endings
- On short stories
- Tension in fiction
- On the life and afterlife of the short story
- Short stories – ‘experimental’ shorts
- Other countries
- The experimental short story or experimenting with the short story
- On short stories
- Setting
- Lost stories
- Katherine Mansfield
- The short story
- Judging the BBC National Short Story Award
- Tips and tales
- A paranoid vision
- Absence
- Part 3
- A note on craft and critique: writing is not a democracy
- From beginning to end
- Where to start – ideas and inspiration
- Where to start: titles, beginnings and endings
- Movement and syncopation in fiction: writing the long short story
- Plot versus story – where’s the tension?
- Editing and revising
- Tenses
- Step into a world – thoughts on structure
- Structure and how to use it
- What gets left out and minimalism
- Speaking their minds – character and voice
- Writing flash fiction, liberation through constraint
- A brief history of time in the short story
- Another perspective – point of view in the story
- Voice and dialogue, using scenes
- Experimenting and experimental short stories
- Close reading of ‘Between My Father and the King’ by Janet Frame
- Publishing short stories
- Short story competitions – how to make your story stand out
- Harvesting – on writing your collection
- Short story collections – how do they work and how to get one published?
- 60 favourite short stories
- 50 favourite collections
- Bibliography
- Index
- eCopyright