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179 Ways to Save a Novel Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers. Cover Image E-book E-book

179 Ways to Save a Novel Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers

Selgin, Peter. (Author).

Summary: Looking for ways to fix your novel? Or: Is your fiction writing in peril?Based on real advice gleaned from thousands of writing critiques, 179 Ways to Save a Novel is more than a collection of ideas for troubleshooting your work-in-progress (though it holds plenty of practical writing advice). This inspiring guide doubles as a thoughtful examination of the writing life-and not just with respect to writing, but to the reading habits and thought processes of writers. The 179 meditations in this book are grouped under six headings: Substance; Structure; Style; Symbol, Myth & Metaphor; Soul; and O.

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  • ISBN: 9781599631585 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 159963158X (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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    1 online resource (290 p.)
  • Publisher: F+W Media, 2010.

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Formatted Contents Note: Cover; Copyright; Table of Contents; Introduction; Matters of Substance; An Artist Chooses; Characters: Heroes, Villains & Victims; Situations: General vs. Routine; Inauthentic Writing: Cliche' & Convenience; Melodrama & Violence; Deaths: Unearned; Sentimentality & Other Sticky Stuff; Authenticity in Realms of the Absurd; Autobiography: Its Pleasures & Perils; Autobiography: Clutter & Anecdote; Lovers, Parents & Disappearing Narrators; End Notes; Matters of Structure; Form: No Wine Without the Glass; Plot: The Marriage of Substance & Structure; Point of View: Inhabiting Our Stories.
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Subject: Authorship Technique
Fiction Authorship
Fiction Technique
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
REFERENCE / Writing Skills
Genre: Electronic books.

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