The stuff of fiction
Subtitle: advice on craft
By: Douglas Bauer.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Subjects: Fiction -- Authorship.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-135).
Table of contents: title: Openings : ways of starting the story; title: Dialogue : the reader as eavesdropper; title: Characters : the need for flawed heroes and sympathetic villains; title: High events : the treatment of dramatic moments in serious fiction; title: Sentiment versus sentimentality : the first, always; the second, never; title: Closings : ways of ending the story.