Focused on the challenges faced by aspiring writers, Brady illuminates how technique serves 'story logic', the particular way fiction makes meaning. She offers a closer look at craft fundamentals (plot, characterization, point-of-view, imagery, style, and setting), including examples from classic and contemporary fiction and writing exercises. INDICE: - Story Logic - The Elusiveness at the Heart of Story Structure - Chapter Structure and Shapeliness in the Novel - Three Key Strategies of StoryLogic - Captured in Motion: Dynamic Characterization - Point of View Q& A - Synedoche and Metonymy in Setting, Staging and Dialogue - Patterns of Imagery -Showing and Telling - The Sentence as a Touchstone of Style - Exercises - Notes - Further Reading
- ISBN: 978-0-230-58055-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha Publicación: 10/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés