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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Plotting and writing suspense fiction
  name:
    name part: Highsmith, Patricia
    name part: 1921-1995
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: Literature
  genre: Literature.
  genre: Littérature.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: St. Martin's Press
    date issued: 1990
    edition: 1st U.S. pbk. ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: regular print
    extent: xiv, 145 pages ; 21 cm.
  abstract: Patricia Highsmith, author of Strangers On a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Found In The Street, and many other books, is known as one of the finest suspense novelists. In this book, she analyzes the key elements of suspense fiction, drawing upon her own experience in four decades as a working writer. She talks about, among other topics; how to develop a complete story from an idea; what makes a plot gripping; the use (and abuse) of coincidence; characterization and the "likeable criminal"; going from first draft to final draft; and writing the suspense short story. Throughout the book, Highsmith illustrates her points with plentiful examples from her own work, and by discussing her own inspirations, false starts, dead ends, successes, and failures, she presents a lively and highly readable picture of the novelist at work.
  table of contents: I The Germ Of An Idea 3 -- II Mainly On Using Experiences 14 -- III The Suspense Short Story 27 -- IV Development 37 -- V Plotting 53 -- VI The Frist Draft 61 -- VII The Snags 82 -- VIII The Second Draft 97 -- IX The Revisions 103 -- X The Case History Of A Novel: The Glass Cell 108 -- XI Some Notes On Suspense In General 133.
  note: Patricia Highsmith.
  note: Updated to 1981, with new foreword, 1988.
  note: Originally published: Boston : The Writer, 1981.
  note: The Cushing Library/Science Fiction copy [A1485349048D] is part of the Ray Nayler Collection.
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Suspense fiction
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Creative writing
  subject:
    topic: Roman policier
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Création littéraire
  subject:
    topic: Creative writing
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Suspense fiction
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Kriminalroman
  subject:
    topic: Roman policier
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Suspense (littérature)
  subject:
    topic: Kriminalroman
  subject:
    topic: Creative writing
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Detective and mystery stories, English
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Suspense fiction
    topic: Technique
  classification: PN3355 .H52 1990
  classification: 808.3/872
  classification: 808.3 H63p
  classification: 18.06
  classification: HU 3872
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Writer's library (New York, N.Y.)
  identifier: 031204867X
  identifier: 9780312048679
  identifier: 031228666X
  identifier: 9780312286668
  identifier: 90037279
  identifier: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780312048679.pdf
  related item:
    location:
      url: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780312048679.pdf
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 900423
    record change date: 20260603151236.2
    record identifier: in00005783814
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng