Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft
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This updated edition of the classic, comprehensive guide to creative writing features new topics and writing prompts, contemporary examples, and more. A creative writer’s shelf should hold at least three essential books: a dictionary, a style guide, and Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction. This best-selling classic is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and for decades it has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn the craft. Now in its tenth edition, Writing Fiction is more accessible than ever for writers of all levels—inside or outside the classroom. This new edition continues to provide advice that is practical, comprehensive, and flexible. Moving from freewriting to final revision, Burroway addresses “showing not telling,” characterization, dialogue, atmosphere, plot, imagery, and point of view. It includes new topics and writing prompts, and each chapter now ends with a list of recommended readings that exemplify the craft elements discussed. Plus, examples and quotations throughout the book feature a wide range of today’s best and best-known creators of both novels and short stories.
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Ce livre aborde les sujets importants autour de l'écriture de fiction : le processus d'écriture, “show, don't tell”, les personnages, le cadre du récit, la structure du récit, les points de vue, les métaphores et la symbolique, et le processus de relecture et de correction.
Son autrice le fait de façon intéressante, agréable à lire, et illustrée avec des extraits courts et parlants. Une lecture à la fois plaisante et instructive, ce qui n'est pas une mince affaire étant donné que j'enchaine les lectures sur ce sujet en ce moment.
This was a text I read for my Fiction Writing Workshop and it was a valuable resource. Not only did it provide wonderful examples, but the author included quotes and additional texts that accented the learning.
