Title: The secret miracle : the novelist's handbook /
Authors: Alarcón, Daniel, 1977-
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Fiction Authorship Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Fiction Technique Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Abstract: The world?s best contemporary novelists?from Michael Chabon and Jonathan Lethem to Alaa Al Aswany and Mario Vargas Llosa?engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fiction. Drawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing novels, The Secret Miracle brings together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write.
Contents: Reading and influences -- Getting started -- Structure and plot -- Character and scene -- Writing -- Revision -- The end.