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Author Bauer, Douglas.

Title The stuff of fiction : advice on craft / Douglas Bauer.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]
©2006

Item Status

Edition Rev. & enl. ed.
Description 1 online resource (x, 189 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-189).
Contents Openings : ways of starting the story -- And so we begin -- Sentences : doing the dusty work -- How sentences work -- Dialogue : the reader as eavesdropper -- Think of your ears as magnets -- Putting it in context : foreground needs background -- But why did the queen die? -- Implicit narrative : achieving subtlety while avoiding confusion -- Presence and absence -- Characters : flawed heroes and sympathetic villains -- Making heroes flawed -- High events : the treatment of dramatic moments -- Richness of the resonance -- Sentiment versus sentimentality : the first, always; the second, never -- No cheating allowed -- Closings : ways of ending the story -- Finally.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Fiction -- Authorship.
Fiction -- Authorship.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Bauer, Douglas. Stuff of fiction. Rev. & enl. ed. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2006003046
ISBN 9780472026272 (electronic book)
0472026275 (electronic book)
0472031538 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780472031535