02459nam 2200589Ia 450 991082114890332120240313122211.01-60938-157-2(CKB)2670000000332904(EBL)1110711(OCoLC)824733600(SSID)ssj0000820578(PQKBManifestationID)11974565(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820578(PQKBWorkID)10862111(PQKB)10148250(MiAaPQ)EBC1110711(MdBmJHUP)muse25669(Au-PeEL)EBL1110711(CaPaEBR)ebr10645235(EXLCZ)99267000000033290420120712d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrVivid & continuous essays and exercises for writing fiction /John McNally1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Press20131 online resource (188 p.)Includes index.1-60938-156-4 Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Writing; The Ideal Reader; Subject Matter; Beginnings; Titles; The Narrator's Likeability; Minor Characters; Immediacy; Pop Culture; Humor; Neighborhoods; The Imitative Fallacy; Subtext; Gestation; Humility; Further Reading; IndexTaking off from The Creative Writer's Survival Guide, John McNally'srelentlessly blunt, bracingly cheerful, and immensely helpful map to being a writer, Vivid and Continuousis an equally blunt, cheerful, and helpful map to learning to be a writer. While acknowledging that many fine books cover such essentials of fiction writing as point of view, characterization, and setting, McNally sets out in this new book-intended as a supplement to beginning fiction-writing classes or as the sole text for upper-level or graduate courses-to solve the tricky second-tierVivid and continuousFictionAuthorshipAuthorshipHandbooks, manuals, etcCreative writingHandbooks, manuals, etcFictionAuthorship.AuthorshipCreative writing808.3808.3McNally John1965-1450851MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821148903321Vivid & continuous4018881UNINA