Writing Great Fiction
usually want to dramatize the most important or interesting parts of the story, while relying on exposition to get across essent ...
Lecture 20: Building Scenes 7KH/HFWXUHU¶V7DOH has a plot, the true purpose of the book is to make fun of the excesses of moder ...
describing them than you do later on, when the reader already knows who the character is or what the setting looks like. You can ...
Lecture 20: Building Scenes suspicious death, a suicide attempt, and a fortune in gold, all of which happened two weeks before M ...
conversation he’d had with Anna the day before.” A more subtle way to VLJQDODÀDVKEDFNLVZLWKDFKDQJHLQYHUEWHQVH²IURPWKH ...
Lecture 20: Building Scenes Choose an undramatized moment from a story of your own or from a VWRU\RUQRYHO\RXDGPLUHDQGWXUQ ...
Should I Write in Drafts? ................................................................. Lecture 21 F rom day to day, most wr ...
Lecture 21: Should I Write in Drafts? It’s the only time in the creative process when you can fully experience the thrill of dis ...
in front of you. The experience of writing everything down can change what you thought you were doing in profound ways. z $QRWK ...
Lecture 21: Should I Write in Drafts? IRUH[DPSOHLQ)HEUXDU\DQGWKH¿UVWLQVWDOOPHQWZDV published only three months l ...
multiple drafts out in longhand now write only one complete draft of their work on the computer, making as many changes as they ...
Lecture 21: Should I Write in Drafts? With each subsequent draft, you gather a little more material and go EDFNWRHDUOLHUVFHQH ...
Revision without Tears .................................................................... Lecture 22 I QWKHHDUO\VWDJHVRIF ...
Lecture 22: Revision without Tears o If you write a whole draft without looking back and don’t start revising until it’s done, t ...
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Lecture 22: Revision without Tears z In the second-draft version, the bare, unevocative summary of the ¿UVWYHUVLRQLVHOLPLQDW ...
z During the course of writing 7KH /HFWXUHU¶V 7DOH, the character of Professor Victorinix changed from a minor character to a ...
Lecture 22: Revision without Tears Lessons Learned z As these revisions show, some writers work from the general to the VSHFL¿F ...
Reverse the process of writing and revising that you used in the last lecture. If you dashed out something without looking back ...
Lecture 23: Approaches to Researching Fiction Approaches to Researching Fiction................................................ ...
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