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9780321107176

What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers

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  • ISBN13:

    9780321107176

  • ISBN10:

    0321107179

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-01-01
  • Publisher: Longman
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Summary

What If? is the first handbook for writers based on the idea that specific exercises are one of the most useful and provocative methods for mastering the art of writing fiction. With more than twenty-five years of experience teaching creative writing between them, Anne Bernays and Pamela Painter offer more than seventy-five exercises for both beginners and more experienced writers. These exercises are designed to develop and refine two basic skills: writing like a writer and, just as important, thinking like a writer. They deal with such topics as discovering where to start and end a story; learning when to use dialogue and when to use indirect discourse; transforming real events into fiction; and finding language that both sings and communicates precisely. What If? will be an essential addition to every writer's library, a welcome and much-used companion, a book that gracefully borrows a whisper from the muse.

Table of Contents

Beginnings
Notebooks, Journals, and Memory
Characterization
Perspective, Distance, and Point of View
Dialogue
Interior Landscapes
Plot
The Elements of Style
A Writer's Tools
Invention and Transformation
Revision: Rewriting Is Writing
Games
Learning from the Greats
Sudden, Flash, and Microfiction: The Short Story
20/20
Excuses I Have Already Used
Mackerel Night
The Custodian
Girl
Confirmation Names
It Would've Been Hot
My Mother's Gifts
The New Year
Wants
No One's a Mystery
Vision out of the Corner of One Eye
A Collection of Short Fiction
Happy Endings
Christmas Eve at Johnson's Drugs N Goods
Gryphon
Some of Our Work with Monsters
Cathedral
Sister
White Angel
How to Talk to a Hunter
Live Life King Sized
The Niece
Shiloh
Sheep
Five Points
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Wolinsky's Resort
The Appaloosa House
Under the Roof
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