How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II: Advanced Techniques for Dramatic Storytelling - Couverture rigide

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Frey, James

 
9780312104788: How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II: Advanced Techniques for Dramatic Storytelling
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ISBN 10 : 0312104782 ISBN 13 : 9780312104788
Editeur : St Martin's Press, 1994

Synopsis

Bestselling author James N. Frey's How to Write a Damn Good Novel remains one of the most widely used guides ever published for aspiring authors.

"Damn good" fiction is dramatic fiction, Frey insists, whether it is by Hemingway or Grisham, Le Carré or Ludlum, Austen or Dickens. Despite their differences, these authors' works share common elements: strong narrative lines, fascinating characters, steadily building conflicts, and satisfying conclusions. Here, in How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II, Frey offers powerful advanced techniques to build suspense, create fresher, more interesting characters, and achieve greater reader sympathy, empathy, and identification.

How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II also warns against the pseudo-rules often inflicted upon writers, rules such as "The author must always be invisible" and "You must stick to a single viewpoint in a scene," which cramp the imagination and deaden the narrative. Frey focuses instead on promises that the author makes to the reader--promises about character, narrative voice, story type, and so on, which must be kept if the reader is to be satisfied.

This book is rich, instructive, honest, and often tellingly funny about the way writers sometimes fail their readers and themselves.

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À propos de l'auteur

James N. Frey is the author of the internationally bestselling How to Write a Damn Good Novel and How to Write a Damn Good Novel, II, as well as nine novels. He has taught and lectured on creative writing at several different schools and conferences throughout the U.S. and Europe.

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Éditeur
St Martin's Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0312104782
ISBN 13 
9780312104788
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
161
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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