Vivid & continuous : essays and exercises for writing fiction / / John McNally
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| Autore: |
McNally John <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Vivid & continuous : essays and exercises for writing fiction / / John McNally
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (188 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 808.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Fiction - Authorship |
| Authorship | |
| Creative writing | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Taking 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-tier |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Vivid and continuous |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Vivid & continuous |
| ISBN: | 1-60938-157-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821148903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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