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The stuff of fiction : advice on craft /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bauer, Douglas
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Fiction > Authorship.
Table of Contents:
  • Openings : ways of starting the story
  • Dialogue : the reader as eavesdropper
  • Characters : the need for flawed heroes and sympathetic villains
  • High events : the treatment of dramatic moments in serious fiction
  • Sentiment versus sentimentality : the first, always; the second, never
  • Closings : ways of ending the story.