A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction
By Jack Hodgins
Published in 2001 by McClelland & Stewart
Originally published in 1993
Rating: 4 / 5
Description:
This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories…. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and how some of the best writers in English have solved them. The chapters are clear and comprehensive: Finding Your Own Stories; One Good Sentence After Another; Setting; Character; Plot; The Architecture of Story; Point of View and Voice; Metaphors, Symbols and Allusions; Revising.
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