Making of a Story : A Norton Guide to Creative Writing by Alice LaPlante (2010,

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ISBN
9780393337082
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Publication Name
Making of a Story : a Norton Guide to Creative Writing
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Length
9.3 in
Subject
Style Manuals, Study & Teaching, Rhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.9 in
Author
Alice Laplante
Item Weight
27.9 Oz
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
677 Pages
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393337081
ISBN-13
9780393337082
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Number of Pages
677 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Making of a Story : a Norton Guide to Creative Writing
Publication Year
2010
Subject
Style Manuals, Study & Teaching, Rhetoric, Composition & Creative Writing
Type
Textbook
Author
Alice Laplante
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
1.9 in
Item Weight
27.9 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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22
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Comprehensive in its coverage of inspiration, craft, aesthetics, veracity, and purpose, this one-stop guide to writing is casual in tone and rigorous in content, elucidating the nature of diction and nonfiction and clarifying the qualities unique to each and common to both. Each chapter contains an explication of such subjects as point of view, characters, and narrative structure; writing exercises; and an illustrative story by the likes of Tim O'Brien, ZZ Packer, Lorrie Moore, John Cheever, and Maxine Hong Kingston. Expansive, clear, and sophisticated, LaPlante's richly resourced guide is destined to become a standard.
Dewey Decimal
808/.042
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The Making of a Story is a fresh and inspiring guide to the basics of creative writing--both fiction and creative nonfiction. Its hands-on, completely accessible approach walks writers through each stage of the creative process, from the initial triggering idea to the revision of the final manuscript. It is unique in combing the three main aspects of creative writing instruction: process (finding inspiration, getting ideas on the page), craft (specific techniques like characterization), and anthology (learning by reading masters of the form). Succinct, clear definitions of basic terms of fiction are accompanied by examples, including excerpts from masterpieces of short fiction and essays as well as contemporary novels. A special highlight is Alice LaPlante's systematic debunking of many of the so-called rules of creative writing. This book is perfect for writers working alone as well as for creative writing classes, both introductory and advanced., A Los Angeles Times bestseller: wonderfully lucid and illuminating, Alice LaPlante's guide to writing fiction "recalls Francine Prose's bestseller, Reading Like a Writer" (Library Journal).
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PE1408.L31887 2010

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